person
Ben-deker
בֶּן־דֶּ֫קֶר
Ben-deker was one of the twelve district governors appointed by Solomon to provide provisions for the king and his household.
- verses
- 1
- first named
- 1 Kings 4:9
- last named
- 1 Kings 4:9
- period
- United Monarchy
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Ben-deker?
Ben-deker is mentioned in 1Ki.4.9 as one of the twelve district governors appointed by King Solomon to oversee the provision of food for the king and his household. Each governor was responsible for supplying provisions for one month out of the year. Ben-deker's district included Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan. The appointment of these twelve governors was part of Solomon's administrative strategy to ensure the smooth running of his kingdom and the well-being of his court. The text does not provide any further details about Ben-deker's background, family, or personal characteristics. His inclusion in the list of governors highlights the importance of efficient administration and resource management in Solomon's reign.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Child of
- Dekerregistry, no verse
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Ben-deker is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Kings (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
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