And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.
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Gill's Exposition
And these are their names,.... Or rather the names of their fathers; for of many of them not their own names but their fathers' names are given, as being well known:
the son of Hur, in Mount…
Barnes' Notes
The requirement of a portion of their produce from subjects, in addition to money payments, is a common practice of Oriental monarchs. It obtained in ancient, and it still obtains in modern, Persia.
Adam Clarke
Twelve officers - The business of these twelve officers was to provide daily, each for a month, those provisions which were consumed in the king's household; see Kg1 4:22, Kg1 4:23. And the task for…
Here we have,
I. Solomon upon his throne (Kg1 4:1): So king Solomon was king, that is, he was confirmed and established king over all Israel, and not, as his successors, only over two tribes. He was a…
Cambridge Bible
twelve officers The stations of these men were in different parts of the country, and each for his month had to gather from the district assigned to him contributions in kind for the royal household.