^{1 Ref} And king Solomon was king over all Israel.

^{2 Ref} And these were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;

^{3 Ref} Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;

^{4 Ref} and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

^{5 Ref} and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, `and' the king's friend;

^{6 Ref} and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to taskwork.

^{7 Ref} And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.

^{8 Ref} And these are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim;

^{9 Ref} Ben-deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;

^{10 Ref} Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him `pertained' Socoh, and all the land of Hepher);

^{11 Ref} Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife);

^{12 Ref} Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;

^{13 Ref} Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (to him `pertained' the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; `even' to him `pertained' the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brazen bars);

^{14 Ref} Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

^{15 Ref} Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon to wife);

^{16 Ref} Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;

^{17 Ref} Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

^{18 Ref} Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

^{19 Ref} Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and `he was' the only officer that was in the land.