Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Solomon' s provision for one day: -
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d Of fine flour 30 measures, or cors.
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d Of meal 60 ditto.
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d Stall-fed oxen 10
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d Ditto from the pasture 20
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d Sheep 100; with harts, roebucks, fallow deer, and fat fowls.
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d The cor was the same as the homer , and contained nearly seventy-six gallons, wine measure, according to Bishop Cumberland.
Sheep - tson , comprehending both sheep and goats.
Harts - meaiyal , the deer.
Roebucks - tsebi , the gazal, antelope, or wild goat.
Fallow deer - yachmur , the buffalo. See the notes on Deuteronomy 12:15; Deuteronomy 14:5.
Fatted fowl - barburim abusim , I suppose, means all the wild fowls in season during each month. Michaelis derives barburim from bara , which in Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, signifies a field, a desert; all that is without the cities and habitations of men: hence cheyvath bara , wild beasts, Daniel 2:38, tor bar , wild bull; and therefore barburim may signify creatures living in the fields, woods, and deserts, which are taken by hunting, and opposed to those which are domesticated; and, consequently, may include beasts as well as fowls. Many have translated the word capons; but, query, was any such thing known among the ancient Jews? Solomon' s table, therefore, was spread with all the necessaries and delicacies which the house or the field could afford.
But how immense must the number of men have been who were fed daily at the palace of the Israelitish king! Vilalpandus computes the number to be not less than forty-eight thousand, six hundred; and Calvisius makes, by estimation from the consumption of food, fifty-four thousand! These must have included all his guards, each of whom received a ration from the king' s store.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing 1 Kings 4:22:
1 Kings 4:7
1 Kings 10:5
Isaiah 3:7
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