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Selected Verse: 1 Kings 4:23 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 1Ki 4:23 |
King James |
Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl. |
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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| 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 Kg1 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. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Fat - Fatted in stalls. Out of pastures - Well fleshed, tender and good, though not so fat as the former. |
24 For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him.