1 Kings 4:23
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.
1 Kings 5:16
3,300 <07969 0505> [three thousand.]
In the parallel passage of Chronicles, it is "three thousand six hundred," which is also the reading of the Septuagint here.
1 Kings 7:20
pomegranate-shaped <07416> [and the pomegranates.]
1 Kings 9:23
men <08269> [chief.]
1 Kings 9:28
Ophir <0211> [Ophir.]
four hundred <0702 03967> [four hundred.]
1 Kings 10:14
666 <08337 03967> [A.M. 2989-3029. B.C. 1015-975. was six hundred.]
Equal to 4,683,675Å“ 12s. 8d. sterling; which was what he got annually in bullion.
[See on ch.]
1 Kings 10:17
Palace <01004> [in the house.]
1 Kings 18:4
Jezebel <0348> [Jezebel. Heb. Izabel. cut off the prophets.]
two caves <04631> [in a cave.]
brought ... food <03557 03899> [fed them.]
food ... water <04325 03899> [bread and water.]
1 Kings 18:22
left <03498> [I only.]
prophet ............ prophets ... Baal <05030 01168> [Baal's prophets.]
