The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.
Solomon's crown shone brighter than ever it had in David's days or would again in his successors'. His kingdom was a living type of Christ's: dominion from sea to sea, neighboring princes in homage, wealth flowing in, and peace on all sides because the fool serves the wise in heart.
AI summary
Commenting on 1 Kings 4:20-28
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, Deu 14:5; these were hunted...
Judah and Israel [were] many, as the sand which [is] by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry. (f) They lived in all peace and security.