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 4:22-23
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.
1 Kings 4:27-28
district governors <05324> [those officers.]
<07409> [dromedaries. or, mules, or swift beasts.]
