1 Kings 4:6

World English Bible (2000)

and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 20:24 : 24 and Adoram was over the men subject to forced labor; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;
  • 1 Kgs 9:15 : 15 This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
  • 1 Kgs 12:18 : 18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
  • 1 Kgs 5:13-14 : 13 King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. 14 He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor.

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  • 1 Kgs 4:7
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    7Solomon 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.

  • 2 Sam 20:24-25
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    24and Adoram was over the men subject to forced labor; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;

    25and Sheva was scribe; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

  • 1 Kgs 4:2-5
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    2These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;

    3Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;

    4and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

    5and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, [and] the king's friend;

  • 1 Kgs 5:14-16
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    14He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor.

    15Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;

    16besides Solomon's chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.

  • 1 Chr 27:25-26
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    25Over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the treasures in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah:

    26Over those who did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:

  • 2 Chr 31:13
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    13Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.

  • 1 Chr 18:15-17
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    15Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;

    16and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha was scribe;

    17and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.

  • 1 Chr 26:20
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    20Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things.

  • 2 Chr 8:9-10
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    9But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.

    10These were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two-hundred fifty, who ruled over the people.

  • 2 Sam 8:16-18
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    16Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;

    17and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Seraiah was scribe;

    18and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was over] the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief ministers.

  • 1 Kgs 9:23
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    23These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work, five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.

  • 1 Kgs 4:27-28
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    27Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking.

    28Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they to the place where [the officers] were, every man according to his duty.

  • 1 Chr 27:34
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    34and after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the captain of the king's army was Joab.

  • 2 Chr 2:18
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    18He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people at work.

  • 1 Chr 24:6
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    6Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the priests and of the Levites; one fathers' house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.

  • 1 Chr 27:29-30
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    29and over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite: and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai:

    30and over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite: and over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite.

  • 1 Chr 23:4
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    4David said, "Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of Yahweh; six thousand were officers and judges;

  • 1 Kgs 2:35
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    35The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army; and Zadok the priest did the king put in the place of Abiathar.

  • Neh 11:16
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    16and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God;

  • Neh 11:12
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    12and their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred twenty-two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,

  • 2 Chr 2:2
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    2Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

  • 1 Chr 8:4
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    4and Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah,

  • 2 Chr 34:13
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    13Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set forward all who did the work in every kind of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

  • Neh 13:13
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    13I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their business was to distribute to their brothers.

  • 1 Kgs 1:26
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    26But he hasn't called me, even me your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon.

  • 1 Kgs 4:14
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    14Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

  • 1 Chr 26:26
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    26This Shelomoth and his brothers were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the heads of the fathers' [houses], the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the army, had dedicated.

  • 1 Kgs 1:7-8
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    7He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.

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  • 1 Chr 26:4
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  • 1 Chr 11:41
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    41Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,