1 Kings 4:23

Solomon’s Prosperity · 1 Kings 4:20–28
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Translations

Modern
…ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry.
Traditional
Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
Literal
…ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen from the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides deer, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.
Latin
…decem boves pingues, et viginti boves pascuales, et centum arietes, excepta venatione cervorum, caprearum, atque bubalorum, et avium altilium.

Original

Hebrew
English
…ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry.

Notes

Solomon's court was huge and impressive, shown by the large amount of food it needed each day.

Theme notes and profiles

Solomon Solomon’s Wisdom

Events

Glossary

Deer Food and Food Preparation Gazelle Goose Hunting Kings, Books of First and Second Land Sheep Solomon (Person)

Topics

Deer: Provided for Solomon's Household Kings: Exercised Great Hospitality Rulers: Wicked: Solomon, Oppressing the People Sheep: Flesh of, Extensively Used As Food Solomon: Divides his Kingdom Into Subsistence Departments Tax: Paid in Provisions The Roe: Male of, Called the Roebuck