this treasurer Better: this official. The "this" is contemptuous. The word for "official" (sôkçn) is not elsewhere found. It seems to mean either "associate" (like the "king's friend" of 2 Samuel 15:37; 2 Samuel 16:16; 1 Kings 4:5; 1 Chronicles 27:33), or "administrator" (the Assyrian šaknu).

which is over the house (cf. 1 Kings 4:6; 1 Kings 18:3). This office has been compared to that of "mayor of the palace" under the Merovingian kings.

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