1 Kings 4

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1So King Peace ruled over Strives-with-God,

2and these were his chief officials: He-Who-Is-Helps son of Righteous was the priest;

3My-God-Is-Autumn and My-Brother-Is-He-Who-Is, the sons of Shisha, were secretaries; He-Who-Is-Has-Judged son of My-Brother-Is-Born was the recorder;

4He-Who-Is-Has-Built son of He-Who-Is-Knows was in charge of the army; Righteous and Father-of-Abundance were priests;

5He-Who-Is-Helps son of He-Has-Given was in charge of the governors; Bestowed son of He-Has-Given was a priest and adviser to the king;

6My-Brother-Has-Sung was in charge of the palace; and My-Lord-Is-High son of Servant was in charge of the forced labor.

7Peace had twelve governors over all Strives-with-God to provide food for the king and his household. Each one would arrange provisions for one month of the year,

8and these were their names: Son-of-Hur in the hill country of Double-Fruit;

9Son-deker in Makaz, in Fox-Holes, in House-of-Sun, and in Oak-beth-hanan;

10Son-hesed in Lattices (Thicket and all the land of Well belonged to him);

11Son-abinadab in Naphath-Generation (Taphath, a daughter of Peace, was his wife);

12In-Affliction son of My-Brother-Is-Born in Taanach, in Rendezvous, and in all of House-of-Ease next to Zarethan below God-Sows, from House-of-Ease to Meadow-of-Dancing and on past He-Raises-the-People;

13Son-geber in Heights-gilead (the villages of He-Enlightens son of Causing-to-Forget in Heap-of-Witness belonged to him, as well as the region of Stony in Fertile-Plain with its sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);

14My-Brother-Is-Willing son of Timely in Two-Camps;

15My-Brother-Is-Wrath in My-Wrestling (he had married Fragrance, a daughter of Peace);

16In-Affliction son of Hasty in Happy and in Aloth;

17He-Who-Is-Has-Judged son of Paruah in There-Is-Reward;

18My-Hearing son of Terebinth in Son-of-the-Right-Hand;

19Strong-Man son of My-Light in the land of Heap-of-Witness, including the territories of Tempestuous king of the Mountaineers and of Og king of Fertile-Plain. There was also one governor in the land of Praised.

20The people of Praised and Strives-with-God were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.