Solomon’s daughters
1 Kings 4:7-15
7 Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household; each man had to make provision for one month in the year.
8 These were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of E’phraim;
9 Ben-deker, in Makaz, Sha-al’bim, Beth-she’mesh, and E’lonbeth-ha’nan;
10 Ben-hesed, in Arub’both (to him belonged Socoh and all the land of Hepher);
11 Ben-abin’adab, in all Naphath-dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as his wife);
12 Ba’ana the son of Ahi’lud, in Ta’anach, Megid’do, and all Beth-she’an which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, and from Beth-she’an to A’bel-meho’lah, as far as the other side of Jok’meam;
13 Ben-geber, in Ra’moth-gil’ead (he had the villages of Ja’ir the son of Manas’seh, which are in Gilead, and he had the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);
14 Ahin’adab the son of Iddo, in Mahana’im;
15 Ahi’ma-az, in Naph’tali (he had taken Bas’emath the daughter of Solomon as his wife);
Drawing of the royal harem quarters in 19th century Turkey; each woman had her own compartment where she lived, was visited by her husband, and raised her children
Ground plan of the Temple of King Solomon, father of Basemath and Taphath
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