1 Kings 4:13

Contextual Overview

¹ And king Solomon was king over all Israel. ¹ King Solomon now ruled over all Israel, ¹ And king Solomon was king over all Israel. ¹ King Solomon ruled over all Israel. ¹ King Solomon ruled over all Israel. ¹ So king Solomon was king over all Israel. ¹ King Solomon was king over all Israel. ¹King Solomon was king over all [the people of] Israel. ¹ King Solomon was king over all Israel, ¹ `Forsothe kyng Salomon was regnynge on al Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The son of Geber: or, Ben-geber

Ramothgilead: 1 Kings 22:3, Deuteronomy 4:43, Joshua 20:8, Joshua 21:38, 2 Kings 9:1, 2 Kings 9:14

the towns: Numbers 32:41, Deuteronomy 3:14

Argob: Deuteronomy 3:4, Deuteronomy 3:8, Deuteronomy 3:13, Deuteronomy 3:14, Psalms 22:12, Psalms 68:15

threescore great cities: These were the fortified cities; their gates and bars being covered with plates of brass.

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 8:28 - Ramothgilead 1 Chronicles 6:71 - Bashan 2 Chronicles 18:2 - Ramothgilead

Cross-References

Job 15:22
They dare not go out into the darkness for fear they will be murdered.

Job 15:22
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword:

Job 15:22
He does not believe that he shall return out of darkness, And he is destined for the sword.

Job 15:22
Evil people give up trying to escape from the darkness; it has been decided that they will die by the sword.

Job 15:22
He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;

Job 15:22
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for by the sword.

Job 15:22
He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness, He is waited for by the sword.

Job 15:22
"He does not believe that he will return out of the darkness [for fear of being murdered], And he is destined for the sword [of God's vengeance].

Job 15:22
He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword.

Job 15:22
He bileueth not that he may turne ayen fro derknessis to liyt; and biholdith aboute on ech side a swerd.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The son of Geber in Ramothgilead,.... A city in the tribe of Gad, and was a city of refuge, Joshua 20:8;

to him [pertained] the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which [are] in Gilead; of which see Numbers 32:41;

to him [also pertained] the region of Argob, which [is] in Bashan,

threescore great cities with walls, and brasen bars; called by Josephus s Ragaba, beyond Jordan; Numbers 32:41- :.

s Antiqu. l. 13. c. 15. sect. 5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It will be observed that five out of the twelve prefects are designated solely by their father’s names, Ben-Hur, etc., while one (Ahimaaz, 1 Kings 4:15) has no such designation. Probably the document, which the author of the Book of Kings consulted, had contained originally the proper name and father’s name of each prefect; but it was mutilated or illegible in places at the time when he consulted it. If it was in the shape of a list, a single mutilation at one corner might have removed four of the six wanting names.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 4:13. Threescore great cities with walls and brazen bars — These were fortified cities: their gates and bars covered with plates of brass. Such were the gates in Priam's palace: -

Ipse inter primos correpta dura bipenni

Limina perrumpit, POSTES que a cardine vellit

AERATOS. VIRG. AEn., lib. ii. ver. 479.

Fierce Pyrrhus in the front, with forceful sway,

Plied the huge axe, and hew'd the beams away;

The solid timbers from the portal tore,

And rent from every hinge the BRAZEN door.

PITT.