1 Kings 4
1 Solomon's princes.
7 His twelve officers for provision.
20 The peace and largeness of his kingdom.
22 His daily provision.
26 His stables.
29 His wisdom.
Israel <03478> [over all Israel.]
officials <08269> [the princes.]
That is, great, chief, or principal men; for none of them were princes, in the common acceptation of the word.
Azariah <05838> [Azariah.]
priest <03548> [priest. or, chief officer.]
Shisha <07894> [Shisha.]
[Sheva.]
[Shavsha. scribes. or, secretaries. recorder. or, remembrancer.]
Benaiah <01141> [Benaiah.]
Zadok <06659> [Zadok.]
son ... Nathan ......... son ... Nathan <05416 01121> [son of Nathan.]
district <05324> [the officers.]
[the principal.]
king <04428> [the king's.]
Adoniram <0141> [Adoniram.]
[Adoram. tribute. or, levy.]
district <05324> [officers.]
These are doubtless to be considered as general receivers; for, as Sir John Chardin observes, "the revenues of the princes of the East are paid in the fruits and productions of the earth: there are no other taxes on the peasants."
Each <0259> [each man.]
Ben-Hur <01133> [The son of Hur. or, Ben-hur.]
Ben-Deker <01128> [The son of Dekar. or, Ben-dekar. Shaalbim.]
[Shaalabbin. Beth-shemesh.]
Ben-Hesed <01136> [The son of Hesed. or, Ben-hesed. Sochoh.]
Hepher <02660> [Hepher.]
Ben-Abinadab <01125> [The son of Abinadab. or, Ben-abinadab. Dor.]
Taanach <08590> [Taanach.]
Megiddo <04023> [Megiddo.]
Beth Shan ........ Beth Shan <01052> [Beth-shean.]
Zarethan <06891> [Zartanah.]
[Zarthan.]
[Zaretan. Jezreel.]
Abel Meholah <065> [Abel-meholah.]
Ben-Geber <01127> [The son of Geber. or, Ben-geber. Ramoth-gilead.]
villages <02333> [the towns.]
Argob <0709> [Argob.]
sixty large ... cities <08346 01419 05892> [threescore great cities.]
These were the fortified cities; their gates and bars being covered with plates of brass.
Mahanaim <04266> [Mahanaim. or, to Mahanaim.]
Naphtali <05321> [Naphtali.]
daughter <01323> [the daughter.]
Asher <0836> [Asher.]
Issachar <03485> [Issachar.]
Shimei <08096> [Shimei.]
Benjamin <01144> [Benjamin.]
land ..... territory ........ Sihon ................. area <05511 0776> [the country of Sihon.]
sand <02344> [as the sand.]
eat <0398> [eating.]
Solomon ............................ Solomon's <08010> [Solomon.]
<05066> [brought.]
consumed <03899> [provision. Heb. bread. measures. Heb. cors.]
ten ... fattened <06235 01277> [Ten fat.]
rams <0354> [harts.]
Dr. Shaw understands {ayil} as the name of the genus, including all the species of the deer kind, whether they are distinguished by round horns, as the stag, or by flat ones, as the fallow deer, or by the smallness of the branches, as the roe.
gazelles <06643> [roe-bucks.]
See note on De 15:22.
deer <03180> [fallow-deer.]
{Yachmur,} rendered {bubalus} by the Vulgate, probably the buffalo; and though "the flesh of a buffalo does not seem so well tasted as beef, being harder and more coarse," yet in our times, "persons of distinction, as well as the common people, and even the European merchants, eat a good deal of it, in the countries where that animal abounds." Niebuhr, Descrip. de l'Arab p. 146.
Gaza <05804> [Azzah.]
[Gaza. all the kings.]
peace <07965> [had peace.]
security <0983> [safely. Heb. confidently.]
everyone <0376> [every man.]
Dan <01835> [from Dan.]
4,000 ........ 12,000 <0505 0705> [forty thousand.]
district governors <05324> [those officers.]
<07409> [dromedaries. or, mules, or swift beasts.]
God <0430> [God.]
breadth <07341> [largeness.]
sand <02344> [as the sand.]
men <01121> [the children.]
wiser ............ sages ... Egypt <02451 04714> [the wisdom of Egypt.]
wiser <02449> [wiser.]
Ethan <0387> [Ethan.]
Heman <01968> [Heman.]
famous <08034> [his fame.]
composed <01696> [he spake.]
songs <07892> [songs.]
cedars <0730> [the cedar tree.]
The word {airez,} whence the Chaldee and Syriac {arzo,} and the Arabic and Ethiopic {arz,} and Spanish {alerze,} unquestionably denotes the cedar; it is thus rendered by the LXX. and other versions, [kedros,] and by the Vulgate {cedrus;} and the inhabitants of mount Lebanon still call it {ars.} The cedar is a large and nobel evergreen tree, and grows on the most elevated part of the mountain, is taller than the pine, and so thick that five men together could scarcely fathom one. It shoots out its branches at ten or twelve feet from the ground; they are large and distant from each other, and are perpetually green. The wood is of a brown colour, very solid and incorruptible, if preserved from wet. The tree bears a small cone, like that of the pine.
hyssop <0231> [the hyssop.]
animals <0929> [of beasts.]
