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1 Kings 4:9
“Ben Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;”
1 Kings 4:9 in the King James Version
The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan:Read 1 Kings 4:9 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — 1 Kings 4
Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.
These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
Ben Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;
Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (to him pertained Socoh, and all the land of Hepher);
Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife);
Cross references for 1 Kings 4:9
- Joshua 21:16
Ain with its suburbs, Juttah with its suburbs, and Beth Shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
- 1 Samuel 6:20
The men of Beth Shemesh said, "Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? To whom shall he go up from us?
- 1 Samuel 6:12
The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh; they went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth Shem...
- Judges 1:35
but the Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became subject to forced labor.
- Joshua 19:42
Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,
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