1 Kings 4:23

Contextual Overview

²⁰Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea; they were eating, drinking, and rejoicing. ²⁰ Yehudah and Yisra'el were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. ²⁰ Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry. ²⁰ Judah and Israel were as many as the sand by the sea. They ate and drank and were happy. ²⁰ There were as many people in Judah and Israel as grains of sand on the seashore. The people ate, drank, and were happy. ²⁰ The people of Judah and Israel were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore; they had plenty to eat and drink and were happy. ²⁰[The people of] Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand that is in abundance by the sea; they were eating and drinking and rejoicing. ²⁰ Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance; they were eating, drinking, and rejoicing. ²⁰ Iudah and Israel were many, as the sand of the sea in number, eating, drinking, and making merry. ²⁰Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance; they were eating and drinking and being glad.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ten fat: Nehemiah 5:17, Nehemiah 5:18

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.

roebucks: See note on Deuteronomy 15:22.

fallowdeer: 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.

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 14:4 - General 1 Samuel 8:12 - and will set 1 Kings 10:5 - the meat 1 Kings 12:4 - our yoke 2 Chronicles 9:4 - the meat Ecclesiastes 5:11 - they Isaiah 3:7 - neither bread Daniel 1:5 - a daily

Cross-References

Exodus 20:13
"You shall not murder.

Exodus 20:13
Thou shalt not kill.

Exodus 20:13
"You shall not murder.

Exodus 20:13
"You must not murder anyone.

Exodus 20:13
"You shall not murder.

Exodus 20:13
"You shall not commit murder (unjustified, deliberate homicide).

Exodus 20:13
"You shall not murder.

Exodus 20:13
Thou shalt not kill.

Exodus 20:13
"You shall not murder.

Exodus 20:13
Do not murder.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ten fat oxen,.... Such as were kept up in the stall and fatted:

and twenty oxen out of the pastures; which were killed as they were taken from thence, and not put up to be fed:

and an hundred sheep; out of the folds:

beside harts, and roebucks, and fallow deer; which were clean creatures, according to the Levitical law, Deuteronomy 14:5; these were hunted in fields, or taken out of the park, or were presents from other countries; so that here was plenty of beef, mutton, and venison: for the spiritual application of this to the antitypical Solomon, and his provisions, see Matthew 22:4;

and fatted fowl; such as we call capons a; some Jewish writers b, because of the likeness of sound in the word here used, take them to be Barbary fowls, or such as were brought from that country: there is a sort of birds called βαρβαροι, which were without a voice, that neither heard men, nor knew their voice c.

a So David de Pomis, Tzemach David, fol. 12. 3. and some in Kimchi in loc. b Baal Aruch & R. Elias Levit. Tishbi, in voce ברבר. c Scholia in Aristoph. Aves, p. 550.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Harts ... - The exact sorts of wild land animals here intended are very uncertain. Perhaps it would be best to translate “wild-goats, gazelles, and wild oxen,” which abounded in the wilder parts of Syria, from where Solomon would be supplied. (See 1 Kings 4:24.) (Yahmur, or the “roebuck,” gives its name to a valley in a wooded district, south of Carmel (Conder).) The use of game at the royal banquets of Assyria appears in the sculptures.