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1 Raja-raja 4:22

Adapun persediaan makanan yang diperlukan Salomo untuk sehari ialah tiga puluh kor tepung yang terbaik dan enam puluh kor tepung biasa,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bread;   Cor;   Feasts;   Measure;   Rulers;   Solomon;   Tax;   Thompson Chain Reference - Luxury;   Pleasure, Worldly;   Self-Indulgence-Self-Denial;   Solomon;   Worldly;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Measurement;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Cor;   Measure;   Solomon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Philistia;   Solomon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cattle;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Kor;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bread;   Food;   Government;   Israel;   Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Barley;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ha'math;   Weights and Measures;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Meats;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bread;   Food;   Meals;   Measure;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Solomon;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Adapun persediaan makanan yang diperlukan Salomo untuk sehari ialah tiga puluh kor tepung yang terbaik dan enam puluh kor tepung biasa,
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bermula, maka adalah biaya Sulaiman pada sehari tiga puluh pikul tepung halus dan enam puluh pikul tepung,

Contextual Overview

20 And Iuda and Israel were many [euen] as the sande of the sea in numbre, eating, drincking, and making mery. 21 And Solomon raigned ouer all kingdomes from the riuer vnto the lande of the Philistines, [euen] vnto the border of Egypt: and they brought presentes, and serued Solomon al the dayes of his life. 22 And Solomons bread for one day was thirtie quarters of manchet flowre, & threescore quarters of meale: 23 Ten stalled oxen, and twentie out of the pastures, and a hundred sheepe, beside hartes, buckes, and wilde goates, and capons. 24 For he ruled in all the region on the other syde Euphrates, from Thiphsah to Azza, ouer al the kinges on the other syde the riuer: And he had peace with all his seruauntes on euery syde. 25 And Iuda and Israel dwelt without feare, euery man vnder his vine and vnder his figgetree, from Danto Beerseba all the dayes of Solomon. 26 And Solomon had fourtie thousand stalles of horses for charettes, & twelue thousande horsemen. 27 And the officers prouided vittayle for king Solomon and for all that came out of any place to king Solomons table, euery man his moneth, so that they lacked nothing. 28 Barly also and strawe for the horses and mules brought they vnto the place where the officers were, euery man in his office.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

provision: Heb. bread

measures: Heb. cors, 1 Kings 4:22

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 8:12 - and will set 1 Kings 5:11 - measures 1 Kings 10:5 - the meat 1 Kings 12:4 - our yoke 2 Chronicles 9:4 - the meat Nehemiah 5:18 - Now that Proverbs 24:4 - General Ecclesiastes 5:11 - they Isaiah 3:7 - neither bread Daniel 1:5 - a daily

Cross-References

Exodus 25:3
This is the offering whiche ye shall take of them, golde, and siluer, & brasse,
Numbers 31:22
As for golde, siluer, brasse, and iron, tinne, and lead,
Deuteronomy 8:9
A lande wherin thou shalt eate bread without scarcenes, neither shalt thou lacke any thyng: a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hylles thou shalt digge brasse.
Deuteronomy 33:25
Thy shoes shalbe iron and brasse, and thy strength shall continue as long as thou lyuest.
2 Chronicles 2:7
Sende me nowe therefore a cunning man, that can worke in golde and siluer, in brasse and iron, in purple, crymosin, yelowe silke, & that can skyll to graue with the cunning men that are with me in Iuda and Hierusalem, whom Dauid my father dyd prepare.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour,.... The measure here used was the "corus", or "cor", the same with the homer, which was equal to ten ephahs, and, according to Bishop Cumberland w, held seventy five wine gallons and five pints, and somewhat more; by which may be known how many gallons of fine flour these thirty measures held, which were all consumed in one day:

and threescore measures of meal: sixty measures of a coarser sort, for the servants, not so finely dressed; the same measure is here used as before; and it is observed by some, that one cor is equivalent to six hundred forty eight Roman pounds, and allowing to one man two pounds a day for his food, there would be food enough for 29,160 men out of 90 times 648, or 58,320 pounds x. Others exaggerate the account; Vilalpandus says it would have sufficed 48,600 persons; Seth Calvisius 54,000, and Salianus 70,000 y; the Jews say z that he had 60,000 that ate at his table; that is, who were maintained at his court.

w Scripture Weights and Measures, ch. 3. p. 86. x Vid. Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. p. 516. y Vid. Witsii Miscellan. tom. 2. exercit. 10. sect. 26. z Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 8. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thirty measures - (margin, cors) The cor, which was the same measure as the homer, is computed, on the authority of Josephus, at 86 English gallons, on the authority of the rabbinical writers at 44. Thirty cors, even at the lower estimate, would equal 1,320 gallons, or 33 of our “sacks;” and the 90 cors of fine and coarse flour would altogether equal 99 sacks. From the quantity of flour consumed, it has been conjectured that the number of those who fed at the royal board was 14,000.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 4:22. Solomon's provision for one day: -

Of fine flour . . . . . . 30 measures, or cors.

Of meal . . . . . . . . . 60 ditto.

Stall-fed oxen. . . . . . 10

Ditto from the pasture. . 20

Sheep . . . . . . . . . . 100; with harts, roebucks, fallow deer, and fat fowls.


The כר cor was the same as the homer, and contained nearly seventy-six gallons, wine measure, according to Bishop Cumberland.

Sheep — צאן tson, comprehending both sheep and goats.

Harts — מאיל meaiyal, the deer.

Roebucks — צבי tsebi, the gazal, antelope, or wild goat.

Fallow deer — יחמור yachmur, the buffalo. See the notes on Deuteronomy 12:15; Deuteronomy 14:5.

Fatted fowl. — ברברים אבוסים barburim abusim, I suppose, means all the wild fowls in season during each month. Michaelis derives barburim from ברא bara, which in Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, signifies a field, a desert; all that is without the cities and habitations of men: hence חיות ברא cheyvath bara, wild beasts, Daniel 2:38, תור בר tor bar, wild bull; and therefore barburim may signify creatures living in the fields, woods, and deserts, which are taken by hunting, and opposed to those which are domesticated; and, consequently, may include beasts as well as fowls. Many have translated the word capons; but, query, was any such thing known among the ancient Jews? Solomon's table, therefore, was spread with all the necessaries and delicacies which the house or the field could afford.

But how immense must the number of men have been who were fed daily at the palace of the Israelitish king! Vilalpandus computes the number to be not less than forty-eight thousand, six hundred; and Calvisius makes, by estimation from the consumption of food, fifty-four thousand! These must have included all his guards, each of whom received a ration from the king's store.


 
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