1 Kings 4:21-24
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.]
1 Kings 10:23-29
<01431> [exceeded.]
Mr. Reynolds, stating Solomon's income at about four times as much as his father left him, reckons that he had each year 142,242,034Å“. 9s. 7d., each week 2,735,423Å“ 14s. 9d., and each day, 390,770Å“ 16s. 4d.
display <06440 08085> [to. Heb. the face of. which God.]
<0376> [every man.]
mules <06505> [and mules.]
<01697> [a rate.]
Solomon <08010> [Solomon.]
cities <05892> [in the cities.]
king <04428> [the king.]
made .......... was <05414> [made. Heb. gave.]
Solomon <08010> [Solomon, etc. Heb. the going forth of the horses which was]
Solomon's. horse brought.
Que ........ Que <04723> [and linen yarn.]
600 .......... 150 <08337 03967> [for six hundred.]
This was the ordinary price of a chariot, as 150 shekels was that of a horse. It seems that neither horses nor chariots came out of Egypt but by means of Solomon's servants.
kings ........ kings <04428> [the kings.]
sold <03027> [their means. Heb. their hand.]
Proverbs 3:16
Long <0753> [Length.]
left hand ..... honor <08040 03519> [and.]
