Solomon's Officials

1 Kings 4

1 King Solomon was king over all Israel, 2 and these were his high officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was b the priest; 3 Elihoreph and Ahijah the sons of Shisha were secretaries; c Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder; 4 d Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the army; e Zadok and Abiathar were priests; 5 Azariah the son of Nathan was over f the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was priest and g king's friend; 6 Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and h Adoniram the son of Abda was in charge of i the forced labor.

7 Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for one month in the year. 8 These were their names: Ben-hur, in j the hill country of Ephraim; 9 Ben-deker, in Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh, and Elonbeth-hanan; 10 Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him belonged Socoh and all the land of Hepher); 11 Ben-abinadab, in all k Naphath-dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as his wife); 12 Baana the son of Ahilud, in l Taanach, Megiddo, and all l Beth-shean that is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, and from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the other side of Jokmeam; 13 Ben-geber, m in Ramoth-gilead (he had n the villages of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and he had o the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars); 14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; 15 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he had taken Basemath the daughter of Solomon as his wife); 16 Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; 17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; 18 p Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; 19 Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, q the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. And there was one governor who was over the land.

  1. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 6:10
    And Johanan fathered Azariah ( it was he who served as priest in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem).
  2. Cross References
    2 Samuel 8:16
    Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder.
    2 Samuel 20:24
    And Adoram was in charge of the forced labor; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder.
  3. Cross References
    1 Kings 2:35
    The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada over the army in place of Joab, and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.
  4. Cross References
    2 Samuel 20:25
    And Sheva was secretary; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests.
    1 Kings 2:27
    So Solomon expelled Abiathar from being priest to the Lord, thus fulfilling the word of the Lord that he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
    1 Kings 2:35
    The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada over the army in place of Joab, and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.
  5. Cross References
    1 Kings 4:7
    Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for one month in the year.
  6. Cross References
    2 Samuel 15:37
    So Hushai, David's friend, came into the city, just as Absalom was entering Jerusalem.
    2 Samuel 16:16
    And when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, "Long live the king! Long live the king!
    1 Chronicles 27:33
    Ahithophel was the king's counselor, and Hushai the Archite was the king's friend.
  7. Cross References
    1 Kings 5:14
    And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the draft.
    1 Kings 12:18
    Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehoboam hurried to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.
    2 Samuel 20:24
    And Adoram was in charge of the forced labor; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder.
    2 Chronicles 10:18
    Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and the people of Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehoboam quickly mounted his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.
  8. Cross References
    1 Kings 9:15
    And this is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the Lord and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer
  9. Cross References
    Joshua 24:33
    And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
  10. Cross References
    Joshua 11:2
    And to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in Naphoth-dor on the west.
  11. Cross References
    Joshua 17:11
    Also in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; the third is Naphath.
  12. Cross References
    Joshua 17:11
    Also in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; the third is Naphath.
  13. Cross References
    1 Kings 22:3
    And the king of Israel said to his servants, "Do you know that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, and we keep quiet and do not take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?
  14. Cross References
    Numbers 32:41
    And Jair the son of Manasseh went and captured their villages, and called them Havvoth-jair.
  15. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 3:4
    And we took all his cities at that time - there was not a city that we did not take from them - sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
  16. Cross References
    1 Kings 1:8
    But Zadok the priest and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and Nathan the prophet and Shimei and Rei and David's mighty men were not with Adonijah.
  17. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 3:8 - 10
    So we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon
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