Zarethan

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• 1KI 4:7–19, engwebp

  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.

  ⁸These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;

  ⁹Ben Deker, in Makaz, in Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;

  ¹⁰Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);

  ¹¹Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath, Solomon’s daughter, as wife);

  ¹²Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;

  ¹³Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, belonged to him; and the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars, belonged to him);

  ¹⁴Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

  ¹⁵Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);

  ¹⁶Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;

  ¹⁷Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

  ¹⁸Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

  ¹⁹Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer who was in the land.

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• 1KI 7:40–47, engwebp

  ⁴⁰Hiram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished doing all the work that he worked for King Solomon in the LORD’s house:

  ⁴¹the two pillars; the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;

  ⁴²the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars;

  ⁴³the ten bases; the ten basins on the bases;

  ⁴⁴the one sea; the twelve oxen under the sea;

  ⁴⁵the pots; the shovels; and the basins. All of these vessels, which Hiram made for King Solomon for the LORD’s house, were of burnished bronze.

  ⁴⁶The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.

  ⁴⁷Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them. The weight of the bronze could not be determined.

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• JOS 3:14–17, engwebp

  ¹⁴When the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,

  ¹⁵and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),

  ¹⁶the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over near Jericho.

  ¹⁷The priests who bore the ark of the LORD’s covenant stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel crossed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan.

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