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1 Kings 4:23

1 Kings 4:23
Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And Solomon had forty thousand stalls for horses,.... In Ch2 9:25; it is only four thousand; and therefore some think that here is a mistake of the copier, of "arbaim", forty, for "arbah", four; which…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Harts ... - The exact sorts of wild land animals here intended are very uncertain. Perhaps it would be best to translate “wild-goats, gazelles, and wild oxen,” which abounded in the wilder parts of…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

1 Kings 4:20-28

Such a kingdom, and such a court, surely never any prince had, as Solomon's are here described to be.

I. Such a kingdom. Never did the crown of Israel shine so brightly as it did when Solomon wore it,…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

roebucks The Hebrew word (צבי) is rendered δορκὰς by the LXX. i.e. a gazelle. It is akin to the proper name Tabitha, i.e. Δορκὰς (Act 9:36). The rendering roebuckis better suited to the description of…

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