Forsooth Solomon had twelve prefects, either chief ministers, on all Israel, that gave lifelode to the king, and to his house; soothly by each month by itself in the year, each prefect by himself ministered necessaries.
In those days was no king in Israel. A man was a deacon [or Levite], dwelling in the side of the hill of Ephraim, the which took a secondary wife of Bethlehem of Judah.