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.