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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

列王纪上 4:23

肥牛十頭、草場的牛二十頭、羊一百隻,此外還有鹿、羚羊、麃子和肥禽。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Deer;   Rulers;   Solomon;   Tax;   Thompson Chain Reference - Food;   Food, Physical-Spiritual;   Luxury;   Pleasure, Worldly;   Self-Indulgence-Self-Denial;   Solomon;   Victuals;   Worldly;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;   Roe, the;   Sheep;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Roe and Roebuck;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Birds;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Fallow-Deer;   Hart;   Roe;   Solomon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bird;   Fallow Deer;   Food;   Fowl;   Kings, the Books of;   Philistia;   Solomon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Animals;   Cattle;   Doe;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bird;   Fallow-Deer;   Food;   Government;   Hart, Hind;   Hunting;   Israel;   Roe, Roebuck;   Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Cock-Crowing ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Fallow Deer,;   Fowl;   Hart,;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Fallow Deer;   Fowl;   Ha'math;   Hart,;   Ox;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Meats;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Deer;   Food;   Fowl;   Gazelle;   Hunting;   Roe;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sheep;   Solomon;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
肥 牛 十 只 , 草 场 的 牛 二 十 只 , 羊 一 百 只 , 还 有 鹿 、 羚 羊 、 ? 子 , 并 肥 禽 。

Contextual Overview

20 There were as many people in Judah and Israel as grains of sand on the seashore. The people ate, drank, and were happy. 21 Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These countries brought Solomon the payments he demanded, and they were under his control all his life. 22 Solomon needed much food each day to feed himself and all the people who ate at his table: one hundred ninety-five bushels of fine flour, three hundred ninety bushels of grain, 23 ten cows that were fed on good grain, twenty cows that were raised in the fields, one hundred sheep, three kinds of deer, and fattened birds. 24 Solomon controlled all the countries west of the Euphrates River—the land from Tiphsah to Gaza. And he had peace on all sides of his kingdom. 25 During Solomon's life Judah and Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, also lived in peace; all of his people were able to sit under their own fig trees and grapevines. 26 Solomon had four thousand stalls for his chariot horses and twelve thousand horses. 27 Each month one of the district governors gave King Solomon all the food he needed—enough for every person who ate at the king's table. The governors made sure he had everything he needed. 28 They also brought enough barley and straw for Solomon's chariot and work horses; each person brought this grain to the right place.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ten fat: Nehemiah 5:17, Nehemiah 5:18

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.

roebucks: See note on Deuteronomy 15:22.

fallowdeer: 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.

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 14:4 - General 1 Samuel 8:12 - and will set 1 Kings 10:5 - the meat 1 Kings 12:4 - our yoke 2 Chronicles 9:4 - the meat Ecclesiastes 5:11 - they Isaiah 3:7 - neither bread Daniel 1:5 - a daily

Cross-References

Exodus 20:13
"You must not murder anyone.
Leviticus 19:18
Forget about the wrong things people do to you, and do not try to get even. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. I am the Lord .
Numbers 23:18
Then Balaam gave this message: "Stand up, Balak, and listen. Hear me, son of Zippor.
Judges 9:7
When Jotham heard this, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim. He shouted to the people: "Listen to me, you leaders of Shechem, so that God will listen to you!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 a; some Jewish writers b, 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 βαρβαροι, which were without a voice, that neither heard men, nor knew their voice c.

a So David de Pomis, Tzemach David, fol. 12. 3. and some in Kimchi in loc. b Baal Aruch & R. Elias Levit. Tishbi, in voce ברבר. c Scholia in Aristoph. Aves, p. 550.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 Syria, from where Solomon would be supplied. (See 1 Kings 4:24.) (Yahmur, or the “roebuck,” gives its name to a valley in a wooded district, south of Carmel (Conder).) The use of game at the royal banquets of Assyria appears in the sculptures.


 
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