7 Now Solomon had twelve deputies over all Israel, who sustained the king and his household; each man had to sustain them for a month in the year. 8 These are their names:
Ben-hur, in the ahill country of Ephraim;
9 Ben-deker in Makaz and aShaalbim and bBeth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan;
10 Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (aSocoh was his and all the land of bHepher);
11 Ben-abinadab, in all the aheight of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife);
12 Baana the son of Ahilud, in aTaanach and Megiddo, and all bBeth-shean which is beside cZarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to dAbel-meholah as far as the other side of eJokmeam;
13 Ben-geber, in aRamoth-gilead (now bHavvoth-Jair—Jair being the son of Manasseh—which is in Gilead was his: cthe region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars were his);
14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in aMahanaim;
15 aAhimaaz, in Naphtali (he also married Basemath the daughter of Solomon);
16 Baana the son of aHushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
18 aShimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
19 Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, athe country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only deputy who was in the land.