‏ 1 Kings 4:20-23

as the sand 1Kgs 3:8; Gen 13:16, Gen 15:5, Gen 22:17; Prov 14:28

eating 1Sam 30:16; 1Chr 12:39; Job 1:18; Ps 72:3-7; Eccl 2:24; Isa 22:13; Mic 4:4; Zech 3:10, Zech 9:15; Acts 2:46

Solomon 1Kgs 4:24; Gen 15:18; Exod 23:31; Deut 11:24; Josh 1:4; 2Chr 9:26-31; Ezra 4:20; Ps 72:8-11

brought 1Sam 10:27; 2Kgs 17:3; 2Chr 17:5, 2Chr 32:23; Ps 68:29, Ps 72:10-11, Ps 76:11

provision Heb. bread

measures Heb. cors, 1Kgs 4:22

Ten fat Neh 5:17-18

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 Deut 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.

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