Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 10:21
And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels [were of] gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon [were of] pure gold; none [were of] silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
21. all king Solomon’s drinking vessels ] The LXX. here leaves out the defining word, merely putting = vessels, but adds afterwards, what has nothing to represent it in our Hebrew, , ‘and golden la vers.’
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Comparatively; such hyperbolical expressions being frequent, both in Scripture and other authors.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And all King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold,…. Such quantities of it were brought to him from Ophir, and paid to him in tribute, and given him as presents:
and all the vessels of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; not only what were used in his palace at Jerusalem, but in his country house at some little distance:
none were of silver; it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon; to make plate of; or silver plate was but little esteemed, and scarce any use of it made in Solomon’s palace, if at all: though doubtless it was elsewhere, and especially silver as money.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
The drinking vessels of Solomon also were all of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon of costly gold ( : see at 1Ki 6:20). Silver was counted as nothing, because the Tarshish fleet arrived once in three years, bringing gold, silver, etc. (see at 1Ki 9:28).
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(21) None were of silver . . .See 2Ch. 9:27, The king made silver in Jerusalem as stones. The importation of silver (see 1Ki. 10:22) was by the navy of Tarshish; and the mention of the plentifulness of silver seems the reason for noticing the existence of this navy.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
1Ki 10:21 And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels [were of] gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon [were of] pure gold; none [were of] silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
Ver. 21. And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold.] This was both for state and wholesomeness, if that be true which is reported, viz., that if poison be put into a cup of pure gold it hisseth, and so discovereth itself to be poison. Of Prester John, the lord of Africa, it is reported, that as for his scutcheon of arms (guard) he hath a lion standing, and holding in his paw a cross lifted up: so in his greatest solemnities, he causeth to be carried before him a golden cup filled within with dirt, and without also bedaubed therewith, yet so as that the gold appeareth; near unto this cup is carried a rich crucifix: and all to set forth the condition of man, who did once and should still shine as gold, but it is both within and without polluted with sin, till restored by Christ crucified, &c. a It is fore-prophesied by Zechariah, that in the days of the gospel every pot and bowl in Jerusalem shall be “holiness to the Lord.” Zec 14:20-21 This is “better than gold, yea, than fine gold.”
It was nothing accounted of.
a Selneccer., Paedagog. Christian., pars ii. p. 118.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
drinking: 2Ch 9:20-22
the house: 1Ki 10:17, 1Ki 7:2
none were of silver: or, there was no silver in them
Reciprocal: Deu 17:17 – neither shall he 1Ki 9:14 – General 1Ch 28:17 – the bowls Est 1:7 – vessels of gold Job 22:24 – lay up Job 28:1 – the silver Isa 2:7 – land Isa 60:17 – brass
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Ki 10:21. It was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon Comparatively, and about his palace; for it is not to be supposed that all his subjects had so much gold as to make no account of silver. But if gold in abundance would make silver seem so despicable, shall not wisdom and grace, and the foretastes of heaven, make gold seem much more so?