1Ki 4:22-28, 1Ch 27:25-31, 29:2-9, Pro 15:6, 20:15, 21:20, 27:23-27 | TSK | STEP | provision. Heb. bread. measures. Heb. cors.

1 Kings 4:22-28

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

Ten fat.

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

1 Chronicles 27:25-31

the king's.

2Ki 18:15; 2Ch 16:2

the storehouses.

Ge 41:48; Ex 1:11; 2Ch 26:10; Jer 41:8

the increase of the vineyards. Heb. that which was of thevineyards.

And over.

1Ki 4:7

the sycamore trees.The Hebrew {shikmin,} Syriac {shekmo,} and Arabic {jummeez,} is the [sykomoros,] or sycomore, of the Greeks, so called from [sykos,] a fig-tree, and [moros] a mulberry- tree, because it resembles the latter in its leaves, and the former in its fruits. "The sycamore," says Mr. Norden, "is of the height of a beech, and bears its fruit in a manner quite different from other trees: it has them on the trunk itself, which shoots out little sprigs, in form of grape stalks, at the end of which grow the fruit close to one another, almost like a cluster of grapes. The tree is always green, and bears fruit several times in the year, without observing any certain seasons; for I have seen some sycamores that have given fruit two months after others. The fruit has the figure and smell of real figs, but is inferior to them in the taste, having a disgusting sweetness. Its colour is a yellow, inclining to an ochre, shadowed by a flesh colour. In the inside it resembles the common figs, excepting that it has a blackish colouring with yellow spots. This sort of tree is pretty common in Egypt; the people, for the greater part, live on its fruit, and think themselves well regaled when they have a piece of bread, a couple of sycamore figs, and a pitcher of water."

1Ki 20:27

Sharon.

5:16; Isa 65:10

the camels.

Job 1:3

the Ishmaelite.

Ge 47:6

1 Chronicles 29:2-9

I have prepared.

22:3-5,14-16

with all.

2Ch 31:20,21; Ec 9:10; 2Co 8:3; Col 3:23; 1Pe 4:10,11

the gold.

28:14-18

onyx stones.{Avney shoham,} which was, probably, not the precious stone or gem called onyx, but a marble called in Greek {onychites,} which Pliny mentions as a stone Caramania; for one would hardly think that gems of any kind were used externally in such a building as the temple. Antiquity gave both stones this name, because of their resemblance to the nail of the finger.

Ge 2:12; Ex 28:17,20; 39:6,13; Job 28:16; Isa 54:11,12

Re 21:18-21

glistering stones.{Avney phuch} seems to denote a kind of black marble, so called from its colour resembling stibium: so Vulgate {quasi stibinos.}

marble stones.{Avney shayish} is rendered in the Targum {avney marmoraiyah,} "stones of marble," and by the LXX., and Vulgate [Parion] or [Parinon,] or {marmor Parium,} "Parium marble," which was remarkable for its bright white colour. Josephus says that the temple was built of large blocks of white marble, beautifully polished, so as to produce a most splendid appearance.

I have set.

Ps 26:8; 27:4; 84:1,10; 122:1-9

I have.

21:24; Pr 3:9,10

of mine own proper good. i.e., "of my own private property:"at present we only use the plural goods to designate property or personal effects. over and above.

22:4,5,14-16

gold of Ophir.

1Ki 9:28; Job 28:16

who them.

Ex 25:2-9; 35:5-9; Nu 7:2,3,10-14,15-89; Ezr 1:4-6; 2:68,69

Ezr 7:15,16

consecrate his service. Heb. to fill his hand.

the chief.

27:1-15; Isa 60:3-10

the rulers.

27:25-34; 2Co 9:7

Jehiel the Gershonite.