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Solomon’s Officials and Administration in Kings - Koert van Bekkum

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What Kind of Organization of Taxes Is This?

In Ugarit, there might be a different option that had namely that son of a personal name. So reflects the organization of taxes according to families opposed to individuals. And so it might be that this text is already speaking about these sons of in a more derogatory way. It seems that all kinds of regions according to the text had to pay for Solomon, but Judah didn't have to.

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