1 Reyes 4:23

23 diez bueyes cebados, veinte bueyes de pasto y cien ovejas, sin contar los ciervos, gacelas, corzos y aves cebadas.

1 Reyes 4:23 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 4:23

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, ( Deuteronomy 14:5 ) ; these were hunted in fields, or taken out of the park, or were presents from other countries; so that here was plenty of beef, mutton, and venison: for the spiritual application of this to the antitypical Solomon, and his provisions, see ( Matthew 22:4 ) ;

and fatted fowl;
such as we call capons ^F1; some Jewish writers ^F2, because of the likeness of sound in the word here used, take them to be Barbary fowls, or such as were brought from that country: there is a sort of birds called (barbaroi) , which were without a voice, that neither heard men, nor knew their voice ^F3.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 So David de Pomis, Tzemach David, fol. 12. 3. and some in Kimchi in loc.
F2 Baal Aruch & R. Elias Levit. Tishbi, in voce (rbrb) .
F3 Scholia in Aristoph. Aves, p. 550.

1 Reyes 4:23 In-Context

21 Salomón gobernaba todos los reinos desde el río hasta la tierra de los filisteos y hasta el límite con Egipto; ellos trajeron tributo y sirvieron a Salomón todos los días de su vida.

22 La provisión de Salomón para un día era de treinta coros de flor de harina y sesenta coros de harina,

23 diez bueyes cebados, veinte bueyes de pasto y cien ovejas, sin contar los ciervos, gacelas, corzos y aves cebadas.

24 Porque él tenía señorío sobre todo el occidente del río, desde Tifsa hasta Gaza, sobre todos los reyes al occidente del río; y tuvo paz por todos lados a su alrededor.

25 Y Judá e Israel vivieron seguros, cada uno bajo su parra y bajo su higuera, desde Dan hasta Beerseba, todos los días de Salomón.