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Deputies oversee grain and produce being measured for the royal household in a hill-country storehouse. Representative tableau for the listed districts, not an invented meeting of named officials.
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1 Kings 4:7-10

Provision from the districts

1 Kings 4 · 1 Kings 4

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7And Solomon had twelve deputies over all Israel, and they provided for the king and his household; each one had to provide for one month in the year.

8And these were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;

9Ben-deker, in Makaz, in Shaalbim, in Beth-shemesh, and in Elon-beth-hanan.

10Ben-hesed, in Arubboth; Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him.

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