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And Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and for his household: for every one provided necessaries, each man his month in the year. (1 Kings 4, 7)
And the foresaid governors of the king fed them: and they furnished the necessaries also for king Solomon's table, with great care in their time. (1 Kings 4, 27)
Besides that which the men brought him that were over the tributes, and the merchants, and they that sold by retail, and all the kings of Arabia, and the governors of the country. (1 Kings 10, 15)
And when he had enclosed them with walls, he put in them governors and storehouses of provisions, that is, of oil and of wine. (2 Chronicles 11, 11)
And they gave the king's edicts to the lords that were from the king's court, and the governors beyond the river, and they furthered the people and the house of God. (Ezra 8, 36)
And I said to the king: If it seem good to the king, let him give me letters to the governors of the country beyond the river, that they convey me over, till I come into Judea: (Nehemiah 2, 7)
And I came to the governors of the country beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. And the king had sent wish me captains of soldiers, and horsemen. (Nehemiah 2, 9)
And from the day, in which the king commanded me to be governor in the land of Juda, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my brethren did not eat the yearly allowance that was due to the governors. (Nehemiah 5, 14)
But the former governors that had been before me, were chargeable to the people, and took of them in bread, and wine, and in money every day forty sides: and their officers also oppressed the people. But I did not so for the fear of God. (Nehemiah 5, 15)
And he called all the ancients, and all the governors, and his officers of war, and communicated to them the secret of his counsel: (Judith 2, 2)
Now in the third year of his reign he made a great feast for all the princes, and for his servants, for the most mighty of the Persians, and the nobles of the Medes, and the governors of the provinces in his sight, (Esther 1, 3)
Then the king's scribes and secretaries were called for (now it was the time of the third month which is called Siban) the three and twentieth day of the month, and letters were written, as Mardochai had a mind, to the Jews, and to the governors, and to the deputies, and to the judges, who were rulers over the hundred and twenty-seven provinces, from India even to Ethiopia: to province and province, to people and people, according to their languages and characters, and to the Jews, according as they could read and hear. (Esther 8, 9)