1 Reyes 4:23

23 también diez bueyes de los corrales de engordar, veinte reses alimentadas con pasto, cien ovejas o cabras, además de ciervos, gacelas, corzos, y aves de corral de primera calidad.

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 El rey Salomón gobernaba todos los reinos desde el río Éufrates,
en el norte, hasta la tierra de los filisteos y la frontera con Egipto, en el sur. Los pueblos conquistados le enviaban impuestos y le sirvieron durante toda su vida.

22 La cantidad de alimento que se requería a diario en el palacio de Salomón era: seis mil seiscientos kilos de harina selecta y trece mil doscientos kilos de harina gruesa,

23 también diez bueyes de los corrales de engordar, veinte reses alimentadas con pasto, cien ovejas o cabras, además de ciervos, gacelas, corzos, y aves de corral de primera calidad.

24 El dominio de Salomón se extendía por todos los reinos al occidente del río Éufrates, desde Tifsa hasta Gaza, y había paz en todas sus fronteras.

25 Durante la vida de Salomón, los habitantes de Judá e Israel vivieron en paz y con seguridad. Desde Dan, en el norte, hasta Beerseba, en el sur, cada familia tenía su propia casa con jardín.