John Gill's Exposition on 1 Kings 4:23

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Ten fat oxen, etc.] 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, (<051405>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 <402204> Matthew 22:4); and fatted fowl; such as we call capons f52; some Jewish writers f53, 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 f54.

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