1 Kings 4:28

28 They also brought to the proper place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and the other horses.

1 Kings 4:28 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
28 Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.
English Standard Version (ESV)
28 Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds they brought to the place where it was required, each according to his duty.
New Living Translation (NLT)
28 They also brought the necessary barley and straw for the royal horses in the stables.
The Message Bible (MSG)
28 They also brought to the designated place their assigned quota of barley and straw for the horses.
American Standard Version (ASV)
28 Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they unto the place where [the officers] were, every man according to his charge.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
28 They brought their quota of barley and straw for the chariot horses to the proper places.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
28 Each man brought the barley and the straw for the chariot teams and the other horses to the required place according to his assignment.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
28 They also brought barley and straw for the chariot horses and the other horses. Each of them brought the amounts that were required of them. They brought them to the proper places.

1 Kings 4:28 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 4:28

Barley also, and straw for the horses and dromedaries
Or rather mules, by comparing the passage with ( 2 Chronicles 9:24 ) ; the particular kind of creatures meant is not agreed on; though all take them to be a swifter sort of creatures than horses; or the swifter of horses, as race horses or posts horses: barley was for their provender, that being the common food of horses in those times and countries, and in others, as Bochart F8 has shown from various writers; and in the Misnah F9 it is called the food of beasts; and Solomon is said to have every day his own horses two hundred thousand Neapolitan measures of called "tomboli" {k}; so the Roman soldiers, the horse were allowed a certain quantity of barley for their horses every morning, and sometimes they had money instead of it, which they therefore called "hordiarium" F12 and the "straw" was for the litter of them: these

brought they unto the place;
where the officers were; not where the king was, as the Vulgate Latin version; where Solomon was, as the Arabic version, that is, in Jerusalem; nor

where [the officers] were;
in their respective jurisdictions, as our version supplies it, which would be bringing them to themselves; but to the place where the beasts were, whether in Jerusalem, or in any, other parts of the kingdom:

every man according to his charge:
which he was monthly to perform.


FOOTNOTES:

F8 Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 2. c. 9. col. 158, 159. Vid. Homer. Iliad. 4. ver. 196. and Iliad. 8. ver. 560.
F9 Sotah, c. 2. sect. 1.
F11 Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 10. 2.
F12 Vid. Valtrinum de re Militar. Roman. l. 3. c. 15. p. 236.

1 Kings 4:28 In-Context

26 Solomon had four thousand stalls for chariot horses, and twelve thousand horses.
27 The district governors, each in his month, supplied provisions for King Solomon and all who came to the king’s table. They saw to it that nothing was lacking.
28 They also brought to the proper place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and the other horses.
29 God gave Solomon wisdom and very great insight, and a breadth of understanding as measureless as the sand on the seashore.
30 Solomon’s wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East, and greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.
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