1 Kings 4:5
son ... Nathan ......... son ... Nathan <05416 01121> [son of Nathan.]
district <05324> [the officers.]
[the principal.]
king <04428> [the king's.]
1 Kings 4:7
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.]
1 Kings 4:27
district governors <05324> [those officers.]
1 Kings 20:19
1 Kings 20:15
232 <03967 08147> [two hundred.]
7,000 <0505 07651> [seven thousand.]
1 Kings 20:17
1 Kings 20:14
servants <05288> [young men. or, servants.]
launch <0631> [order. Heb. bind, or tie.]
1 Kings 21:23
Jezebel ..... Jezebel <0348> [Jezebel.]
Dogs <03611> [the dogs.]
Shocking as this must appear to minds that have been humanized by the kindly influence of Christianity, we still find similar instances in the accounts of modern travellers. Mr. Bruce says, that when at Gondar, "the bodies of those killed by the sword were hewn to pieces and scattered about the streets, being denied burial. I was miserable, and almost driven to despair, at seeing my hunting dogs, twice let loose by the carelessness of my servants, bringing into the court-yard the heads and arms of slaughtered men, and which I could no way prevent, but by the destruction of the dogs themselves."
<02426> [wall. or, ditch.]
1 Kings 4:13
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.
1 Kings 4:19
land ..... territory ........ Sihon ................. area <05511 0776> [the country of Sihon.]
