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1 Kings 4:23

1 Kings 4:23

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

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, De 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 Mt 22:4;and fatted fowl; such as we call capons ; some Jewish writers , 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 .

So David de Pomis, Tzemach David, fol. 12. 3. and some in Kimchi in loc. Baal Aruch & R. Elias Levit. Tishbi, in voce rbrb. Scholia in Aristoph. Aves, p.

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