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1 kings 4:7-19

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1 Kings 4:7-19

King James Version (KJV)

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7. And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision. 8. And these [are] their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim: 9. The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan: 10. The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him [pertained] Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher: 11. The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife: 12. Baana the son of Ahilud; [to him pertained] Taanach and Megiddo, and all Bethshean, which [is] by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Bethshean to Abelmeholah, [even] unto [the place that is] beyond Jokneam: 13. The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him [pertained] the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which [are] in Gilead; to him [also pertained] the region of Argob, which [is] in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars: 14. Ahinadab the son of Iddo [had] Mahanaim: 15. Ahimaaz [was] in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife: 16. Baanah the son of Hushai [was] in Asher and in Aloth: 17. Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar: 18. Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin: 19. Geber the son of Uri [was] in the country of Gilead, [in] the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and [he was] the only officer which [was] in the land.

1 Kings 4:7-19 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 1 Kings 4:7

Theological / Devotional

Provided victuals. This denotes the collection of revenue, either in money or in kind, for the maintenance of the court and the royal household. The office must have been one of importance, for in two cases (vs. 11, 15) the holders were married into the royal house. The districts over which the officers had jurisdiction were not in alignment with the twelve tribes, owing no doubt in part to the fact that by this time much of the early tribal division of the land had become obsolete. Their number, twelve, has no relationship to the twelve tribes, but to the twelve months of the year, in each of which one of the officers was responsible for supplying his quota of the royal dues.

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