1Ki 4:7-23 | TSK | e4.org | officers These are doubtless to be considered as general receivers; for, as Sir John Chardin observes, "the revenues of the princes of the East are paid in the fruits and productions of the earth. There are no other taxes on the peasants." each man

‏ 1 Kings 4:7-23

officers These are doubtless to be considered as general receivers; for, as Sir John Chardin observes, "the revenues of the princes of the East are paid in the fruits and productions of the earth. There are no other taxes on the peasants."

each man 1Chr 27:1-15

The son of Hur or, Ben-hur, Judg 17:1, Judg 19:1

The son of Dekar or, Ben-dekar

Shaalbim Josh 19:42, Shaalabbin

Bethshemesh 1Sam 6:12, 1Sam 6:20

The son of Hesed or, Ben-hesed

Sochoh Josh 15:35

Hepher Josh 12:17, Josh 17:2

The son of Abinadab or, Ben-abinadab

Dor Josh 12:23, Josh 17:11; Judg 1:27

Taanach Josh 17:11; Judg 5:19

Megiddo 2Kgs 23:29-30

Bethshean 1Sam 31:10, 1Sam 31:12

Zartanah 1Kgs 7:46, Zarthan, Josh 3:16, Zaretan

Jezreel 1Kgs 18:46

Abelmeholah 1Kgs 19:16

The son of Geber or, Ben-geber

Ramothgilead 1Kgs 22:3; Deut 4:43; Josh 20:8, Josh 21:38; 2Kgs 9:1, 2Kgs 9:14

the towns Num 32:41; Deut 3:14

Argob Deut 3:4, Deut 3:8, Deut 3:13-14; Ps 22:12, Ps 68:15

threescore great cities These were the fortified cities; their gates and bars being covered with plates of brass.

Mahanaim or, to Mahanaim, Gen 32:2; 2Sam 2:8, 2Sam 17:24, 2Sam 17:27

Naphtali Josh 19:32-39

the daughter 1Kgs 4:11; 1Sam 18:18

Asher Josh 19:24-31

Issachar Josh 19:17-23

Shimei 1Kgs 1:8; Zech 12:13

Benjamin Josh 18:20-28

the country of Sihon Num 21:21-35; Deut 2:26-37, Deut 3:1-17; Josh 13:9-12

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.