1Ki 4 | TSK | STEP | Solomon's princes. His twelve officers for provision. The peace and largeness of his kingdom. His daily provision. His stables. His wisdom. over all Israel.

officers.These are doubtless to be considered as general receivers; for, as Sir John Chardin observes, "the revenues of the princes of the East are paid in the fruits and productions of the earth: there are no other taxes on the peasants."

each man.

1Ch 27:1-15

The son of Hur. or, Ben-hur.

Jud 17:1; 19:1

The son of Dekar. or, Ben-dekar. Shaalbim.

Jos 19:42

Shaalabbin. Beth-shemesh.

1Sa 6:12,20

The son of Hesed. or, Ben-hesed. Sochoh.

Jos 15:35

Hepher.

Jos 12:17; 17:2

The son of Abinadab. or, Ben-abinadab. Dor.

Jos 12:23; 17:11; Jud 1:27

Taanach.

Megiddo.

Beth-shean.

Zartanah.

Zarthan.

Zaretan. Jezreel.

Abel-meholah.

19:16

The son of Geber. or, Ben-geber. Ramoth-gilead.

22:3; De 4:43; Jos 20:8; 21:38; 2Ki 9:1,14

the towns.

Nu 32:41; De 3:14

Argob.

De 3:4,8,13,14; Ps 22:12; 68:15

threescore great cities.These were the fortified cities; their gates and bars being covered with plates of brass.

Mahanaim. or, to Mahanaim.

Ge 32:2; 2Sa 2:8; 17:24,27

Naphtali.

the daughter.

Asher.

Issachar.

Shimei.

Benjamin.

the country of Sihon.

Nu 21:21-35; De 2:26-37; 3:1-17; Jos 13:9-12

as the sand.

3:8; Ge 13:16; 15:5; 22:17; Pr 14:28

eating.

1Sa 30:16; 1Ch 12:39; Job 1:18; Ps 72:3-7; Ec 2:24; Isa 22:13

Mic 4:4; Zec 3:10; 9:15; Ac 2:46

Solomon.

24; Ge 15:18; Ex 23:31; De 11:24; Jos 1:4; 2Ch 9:26-31; Ezr 4:20

Ps 72:8-11

brought.

1Sa 10:27; 2Ki 17:3; 2Ch 17:5; 32:23; Ps 68:29; 72:10,11; 76:11

provision. Heb. bread. measures. Heb. cors.

Ten fat.

Ne 5:17,18

harts.Dr. Shaw understands {ayil} as the name of the genus, including all the species of the deer kind, whether they are distinguished by round horns, as the stag, or by flat ones, as the fallow deer, or by the smallness of the branches, as the roe.

roe-bucks.See note on De 15:22.

fallow-deer.{Yachmur,} rendered {bubalus} by the Vulgate, probably the buffalo; and though "the flesh of a buffalo does not seem so well tasted as beef, being harder and more coarse," yet in our times, "persons of distinction, as well as the common people, and even the European merchants, eat a good deal of it, in the countries where that animal abounds." Niebuhr, Descrip. de l'Arab p. 146.

Azzah.

Ge 10:19; Jud 16:1

Gaza. all the kings.

21; Ps 72:8,11

had peace.

5:4; 1Ch 22:9; Ps 72:3,7; Isa 9:7; Lu 2:14; Heb 7:1,2

safely. Heb. confidently.

Isa 60:18; Jer 23:5,6; 33:15,16; Eze 38:11; *marg:

every man.

2Ki 18:31; Mic 4:4; Zec 3:10

from Dan.

Jud 20:1; 2Sa 17:11; 24:15

forty thousand.

10:25,26; De 17:16; 2Sa 8:4; 2Ch 1:14; 9:25; Ps 20:7

those officers.

7-19

dromedaries. or, mules, or swift beasts.

Es 8:10,14; Mic 1:13

God.

3:12,28; 10:23,24; 2Ch 1:10-12; Ps 119:34; Pr 2:6; Ec 1:16; 2:26

Jas 1:5,17; 3:17

largeness.

Isa 60:5

as the sand.

20; Ge 41:49; Jud 7:12; Jer 33:22; Hab 1:9

the children.

Ge 25:6; Job 1:3; Da 1:20; 4:7; 5:11,12; Mt 2:1,16

the wisdom of Egypt.

Isa 19:11,12; Ac 7:22

wiser.

3:12; Mt 12:42; Lu 11:31; Col 2:3

Ethan.

1Ch 15:19; Ps 89:1; *title

Heman.

1Ch 2:6; 6:33; 15:17; Ps 88:1; *title

his fame.

5:7; 10:1,6; 2Ch 9:23; Mt 4:24

he spake.

Pr 1:1-31:30; Ec 12:9; Mt 13:35

songs.

So 1:1-17

the cedar tree.The word {airez,} whence the Chaldee and Syriac {arzo,} and the Arabic and Ethiopic {arz,} and Spanish {alerze,} unquestionably denotes the cedar; it is thus rendered by the LXX. and other versions, [kedros,] and by the Vulgate {cedrus;} and the inhabitants of mount Lebanon still call it {ars.} The cedar is a large and nobel evergreen tree, and grows on the most elevated part of the mountain, is taller than the pine, and so thick that five men together could scarcely fathom one. It shoots out its branches at ten or twelve feet from the ground; they are large and distant from each other, and are perpetually green. The wood is of a brown colour, very solid and incorruptible, if preserved from wet. The tree bears a small cone, like that of the pine.

Nu 24:6; 2Ki 19:23; Ps 92:12

the hyssop.

Ex 12:22; Nu 19:18; Ps 51:7; Heb 9:19

of beasts.

Ge 1:20-25

10:1; 2Ch 9:1,23; Isa 2:2; Zec 8:23