Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Bethshean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Bethshean to Abelmeholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam:
a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine singular construct
Ahilud
אֲחִיל֔וּד'a.chi.Lud
H286
Achilud · proper noun, a man's name
Taanach
תַּעְנַ֖ךְta'.Nakh
H8590
Taanak or Tanak · proper noun, a place name
Megiddo
וּמְגִדּ֑וֹu.me.gi.Do
H4023
Megiddon or Megiddo · conjunction + proper noun, a place name
Beth-shean
בֵּ֣יתbeit
H1052
Beth-Shean or Beth-Shan · proper noun, a place name
by
אֵ֨צֶל'E.tzel
H681
a side · noun, common both genders singular construct
Zartanah
צָרְתַ֜נָהtza.re.Ta.nah
H6891
Tsarethan · proper noun, a place name + directional suffix
Jezreel
לְיִזְרְעֶ֗אלle.yiz.re.'El
H3157
Jizreel · preposition + proper noun, a place name
Beth-shean
שְׁאָ֡ןshe.'An
H1052
Beth-Shean or Beth-Shan · proper noun, a place name
Abel-meholah
אָבֵ֣ל'a.Vel
H65
Abel-Mecholah · proper noun, a place name
beyond
מֵעֵ֥בֶרme.'E.ver
H5676
properly · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute
Jokneam
לְיָקְמֳעָֽםle.ya.ke.mo.'Am
H3361
Jokmeam · preposition + proper noun, a place name
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Joshua 17:11 And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and…
Joshua 3:16 That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those tha…
Judges 5:19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
1 Kings 19:16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shalt thou anoint to be p…
1 Samuel 31:10 And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
1 Kings 7:46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
1 Kings 18:46 And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
2 Kings 23:29-30 In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and h…
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 4:1-19
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 king, that is, he did the work and duty of a king, with the wisdom God had given him. Those preserve the name and honour of their place that mind the business of it and make conscience of it.
II. The great officers of his court, in the choice of whom, no doubt, his wisdom much appeared. It is observable, 1. That several of them are the same that were in his father's time. Zadok and Abiathar were then priests (Sa2 20:25), so they were now; only then Abiathar had the precedency, now Zadok. Jehosh…
The son of Hur--or, as the Margin has it, Benhur, Bendekar. In the rural parts of Syria, and among the Arabs, it is still common to designate persons not by their own names, but as the sons of their fathers.
Adam Clarke on 1 Kings 4:7
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 such a daily provision was not an easy one.
John Gill on 1 Kings 4:12
Baana the son of Ahilud, to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Bethshean,.... All which were places in the tribe of Manasseh, Joshua 17:11;
which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel; so described, to distinguish it, as is thought, from Zaretan in Joshua 3:16; and the country this officer presided over reached also
from Bethshean to Abelmeholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam; the two first of these were in the tribe of Manasseh, and the last in the tribe of Zebulun, Joshua 19:11.
Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Kings 4:7-19
Solomon's Official Persons and Their Districts. - Kg1 4:7. Solomon had (appointed) twelve נצּבים over all Israel, who provided (כּלכּלוּ) for the king and his house, i.e., supplied provisions for the necessities of the court. These prefects are not to be regarded as "chamberlains," or administrators of the royal domains (Michaelis and Ewald), for these are mentioned in Ch1 27:25. under a different title. They are "general receivers of taxes," or "chief tax-collectors," as Rosenmller expresses it, who levied the king's duties or taxes, which consisted in the East, as they still do to the present time, for the most part of natural productions, or the produce of the land, and not of money payme…
Dictionary and topics
Abel-meholah — Meadow of dancing, or the dancing-meadow, the birth-place and residence of the prophet Elisha, not far from Beth-shean (1 Kings 4:12), in the tribe of Issachar, near where the Wady el-Maleh emerges…
Abelmeholah — (meadow of the dance), in the northern pat of the Jordan valley, (1 Kings 4:12) to which the routed Bedouin host fled from Gideon, (Judges 7:22) Here Elisha was found at his plough by Elijah…
Adam, the city of — Is referred to in Josh. 3:16. It stood “beside Zarethan,” on the west bank of Jordan (1 Kings 4:12). At this city the flow of the water was arrested and rose up “upon an heap” at the time of the…
Ahilud — (a brother of one born, i.e. before him).
Baana — Son of affliction. (1.) One of Solomon’s purveyors (1 Kings 4:12). (2.) Son of Hushai, another of Solomon’s purveyors (1 Kings 4:16). (3.) Father of Zadok (Neh. 3:4).
Beth-shean — House of security or rest, a city which belonged to Manasseh (1 Chr. 7:29), on the west of Jordan. The bodies of Saul and his sons were fastened to its walls. In Solomon’s time it gave its name to a…
Camon — Full of stalks, a place (Judg. 10:5) where Jair was buried. It has usually been supposed to have been a city of Gilead, on the east of Jordan. It is probably, however, the modern Tell-el-Kaimun, on…
Jokmeam — Gathering of the people, a city of Ephraim, which was given with its suburbs to the Levites (1 Chr. 6:68). It lay somewhere in the Jordan valley (1 Kings 4:12, R.V.; but in A.V. incorrectly…
Megiddo — Place of troops, originally one of the royal cities of the Canaanites (Josh. 12:21), belonged to the tribe of Manasseh (Judg. 1:27), but does not seem to have been fully occupied by the Israelites…
Taanach — A sandy place, an ancient royal city of the Canaanites, on the south-western border of the plain of Esdraelon, 4 miles south of Megiddo. Its king was conquered by Joshua (12:21). It was assigned to…
1 Kings 4:12 — meaning, Hebrew and Greek word study, commentary
The twelve district governors probably handled lesser administrative duties, such as securing revenue and providing food for the king’s household. Solomon’s twelve districts did not exactly coincide with the old tribal allotments.
Rashi on 1 Kings 4:11
Nofas-dor. [Targum Yonoson rendered,] the district [פלך] of Dor.
Zartanah — (1 Kings 4:12) [Zaretan, Or Zarthan, Zarthan]
Zarthan — A place near Succoth, in the plain of the Jordan, “in the clay ground,” near which Hiram cast the brazen utensils for the temple (1 Kings 7:46); probably the same as Zartan. It is also called…
Zereda — The fortress, a city on the north of Mount Ephraim; the birthplace of Jeroboam (1 Kings 11:26). It is probably the same as Zaretan (Josh. 3:16), Zererath (Judg. 7:22), Zartanah (1 Kings 4:12), or the…
Abel-Meholah · A city near the Jordan — A city near the Jordan
Ahilud · Father of Baana — Father of Baana
Baana · 1. — 1.
Beth-Shean · District of, un — District of, un
Commissary · For royal households — For royal households
Holy Land · Divided into: Twelve provinces by Solomon — Divided into: Twelve provinces by Solomon
Kings · Officers of: Providers for the king’s table — Officers of: Providers for the king’s table
Megiddo · Inc — Inc
Officer · .Appointed by kings — .Appointed by kings
Purveyor · For — For
Taanach · One of — One of
Tax · Paid in provisions — Paid in provisions
Zaretan · lo — lo
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
