Lièwángjìshang 4:23

23 Féi niú shí zhǐ , cǎo cháng de niú èr shí zhǐ , yáng yī bǎi zhǐ , hái yǒu lù , líng yáng , paó zǐ , bìng féi qín .

Lièwángjìshang 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.

Lièwángjìshang 4:23 In-Context

21 Suǒluómén Tǒng guǎn zhū guó , cóng dà hé dào Fēilìshì dì , zhídào Āijí de biānjiè . Suǒluómén zaì shì de rìzi , zhèxie guó dōu jìn gòng fúshì tā .

22 Suǒluómén mĕi rì suǒ yòng de shíwù , xì miàn sān shí gē Ěr , cū miàn liù shí gē Ěr ,

23 Féi niú shí zhǐ , cǎo cháng de niú èr shí zhǐ , yáng yī bǎi zhǐ , hái yǒu lù , líng yáng , paó zǐ , bìng féi qín .

24 Suǒluómén guǎnlǐ dà hé xībiān de zhū wáng , yǐjí cóng tí Fú sà zhídào Jiāsà de quán dì , sì jìng jǐn dōu píngān .

25 Suǒluómén zaì shì de rìzi , cóng dàn dào Bièshìbā de Yóudà rén hé Yǐsèliè rén , dōu zaì zìjǐ de pútàoshù xià hé wúhuāguǒ shù xià ānrán jūzhù .