1 Kings 4:1-19

Modern English Version

Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest.

³ Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were secretaries.

Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;

⁴ Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army.

Zadok and Abiathar were priests.

⁵ Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers,

and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer and the king’s friend.

⁶ Ahishar was over the household,

and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the forced labor.

the son of Hur in Mount Ephraim;

⁹ the son of Deker in Makaz and in Shaalbim and Beth Shemesh and Elon Bethhanan;

¹⁰ the son of Hesed in Arubboth (to him belonged Sokoh and all the land of Hepher);

¹¹ the son of Abinadab in all the region of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as his wife);

¹² Baana the son of Ahilud in Taanach, Megiddo, and all Beth Shan that is by Zarethan beneath Jezreel, and from Beth Shan to Abel Meholah as far as the other side of Jokmeam;

¹³ the son of Geber in Ramoth Gilead (to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh which are in Gilead, and also the region of Argob which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and iron 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 in Aloth;

¹⁷ Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah in Issachar;

¹⁸ Shimei the son of Ela in Benjamin;

¹⁹ Geber the son of Uri in the country of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. He was the only officer who was in that region.