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1 Kings 4:8

And these are their names: Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English. the son of Hur in the hill country of Ephraim;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Canaan;   Commissary;   Hur;   King;   Officer;   Purveyor;   Rulers;   Solomon;   Tax;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Holy Land;   Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hur;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Azariah;   Ben-Hur;   Book(s);   Economic Life;   Hur;   King, Kingship;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Occupations and Professions in the Bible;   Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ben-Hur;   Government;   Hur;   Israel;   Solomon;   Tribute, Toll, Taxing;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hur;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Hup'pim;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ben-Hur;   Hur;   Tax;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Pottery;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
These were their names:
Hebrew Names Version
These are their names: Ben-Hur, in the hill-country of Efrayim;
King James Version
And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:
English Standard Version
These were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
New Century Version
These are the names of the twelve governors: Ben-Hur was governor of the mountain country of Ephraim.
New English Translation
These were their names: Ben Hur was in charge of the hill country of Ephraim.
Amplified Bible
These were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of [the tribe of] Ephraim;
New American Standard Bible
And these were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
Geneva Bible (1587)
And these are their names: the sonne of Hur in mount Ephraim:
Legacy Standard Bible
These are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
Contemporary English Version
These were the twelve officers: The son of Hur was in charge of the hill country of Ephraim.
Complete Jewish Bible
They were: the son of Hur, in the hills of Efrayim;
Darby Translation
And these are their names: Ben-Hur, in mount Ephraim.
Easy-to-Read Version
These are the names of the twelve governors: Ben Hur was governor of the hill country of Ephraim.
George Lamsa Translation
And these are their names: the son of Hur, who ruled in mount Ephraim;
Good News Translation
The following are the names of these twelve officers and the districts they were in charge of: Benhur: the hill country of Ephraim
Lexham English Bible
These are their names: Ben-Hur was in the hill country of Ephraim.
Literal Translation
And these are their names: Ben-hur in the hills of Ephraim;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The sonne of Hur vpon mount Ephraim.
American Standard Version
And these are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And these are their names: the sonne of Hur in mount Ephraim,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And these are their names: The son of Hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim;
King James Version (1611)
And these are their names: the sonne of Hur in mount Ephraim,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And these were their names: Been the son of Or in the mount of Ephraim, one.
English Revised Version
And these are their names: Ben–hur, in the hill country of Ephraim:
Berean Standard Bible
and these were their names: Ben-hur in the hill country of Ephraim;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And these ben the names of hem; Benhur, in the hil of Effraym;
Young's Literal Translation
and these [are] their names: Ben-Hur in the hill-country of Ephraim;
Update Bible Version
And these are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim;
Webster's Bible Translation
And these [are] their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:
World English Bible
These are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim;
New King James Version
These are their names: Ben-Hur, [fn] in the mountains of Ephraim;
New Living Translation
These are the names of the twelve governors: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim.
New Life Bible
These were their names. There was Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim,
New Revised Standard
These were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, these, are their names, Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And these are their names: Benhur, in mount Ephraim.
Revised Standard Version
These were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of E'phraim;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
These are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;

Contextual Overview

1 Now Solomon was king over all Israel. 2 And these were his chief men: Azariah, the son of Zadok, was the priest; 3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were scribes; Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was the recorder; 4 Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was head of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests; 5 Azariah, the son of Nathan, was over those in authority in the different divisions of the country; Zabud, the son of Nathan, was priest and the king's friend; 6 Ahishar was controller of the king's house; Adoniram, the son of Abda, was overseer of the forced work. 7 And Solomon put twelve overseers over all Israel, to be responsible for the stores needed for the king and those of his house; every man was responsible for one month in the year. 8 And these are their names: Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English. the son of Hur in the hill country of Ephraim; 9 Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English. the son of Deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan; 10 Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English. the son of Hesed in Arubboth; Socoh and all the land of Hepher were under his control;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The son of Hur: or, Ben-hur, Judges 17:1, Judges 19:1

Cross-References

Genesis 4:3
And after a time, Cain gave to the Lord an offering of the fruits of the earth.
Genesis 4:6
And the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? and why is your face sad?
Genesis 4:9
And the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I have no idea: am I my brother's keeper?
Genesis 4:10
And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth.
Genesis 4:12
No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.
Genesis 4:15
And the Lord said, Truly, if Cain is put to death, seven lives will be taken for his. And the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one might put him to death.
Genesis 4:24
If seven lives are to be taken as punishment for Cain's death, seventy-seven will be taken for Lamech's.
Genesis 4:26
And Seth had a son, and he gave him the name of Enosh: at this time men first made use of the name of the Lord in worship.
2 Samuel 3:27
And when Abner was back in Hebron, Joab took him on one side by the doorway of the town to have a word with him quietly, and there he gave him a wound in the stomach, causing his death in payment for the death of his brother Asahel.
2 Samuel 14:6
And I had two sons, and the two of them had a fight in the field, and there was no one to come between them, and one with a blow put the other to death.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 Ephraim; a fruitful country in the tribe of Ephraim, from whence this officer was to furnish the king with provisions for one month in the year.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In this arrangement of the territory into twelve portions, the divisions of the tribes seem to have been adopted as far as could be managed without unfairness. The prefecture of Ben-Hur corresponded nearly to the territory of Ephraim; that of Ben-Dekar to Dan; that of Ben-Hesed to Judah; those of Ben-Abinadab and Baana to Cis-Jordanic Manasseh; that of Ben-Geber to Manasseh beyond Jordan; of Abinadab to Gad; of Ahimaaz to Naphtali; of Baanah to Asher; of Jehoshaphat to Issachar; of Shimei to Benjamin; and of Geber to Reuben. The order in which the prefectures are mentioned is clearly not the geographical. Perhaps it is the order in which they had to supply the king’s table.


 
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