Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
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.
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Commenting on 1 Kings 4:20-28
And Solomon had forty thousand stalls for horses,.... In Ch2 9:25; it is only four thousand; and therefore some think that here is a mistake of the copier, of "arbaim", forty, for "arbah", four; which it is thought might be through divine permission, in such lesser matters, without any prejudice to the authority of the Scriptures in matters of faith and practice; but without supposing...
1Ki 4:22-23 The daily consumption of לחם (food or provisions) amounted to thirty cors of fine meal (סלת = חטּים סלת, fine sifted meal, Exo 29:2; for סלת see also Lev 2:2), and sixty cors of קמח, ordinary meal, ten fattened oxen, twenty pasture oxen, which were brought directly from the pasture and slaughtered, and a hundred sheep, beside different kinds of game.
Commenting on 1 Kings 4:22-23