23<\/strong>. roebucks<\/em> ] The Hebrew word ( ) is rendered by the LXX. i.e. a gazelle. It is akin to the proper name Tabitha, i.e. (Act 9:36<\/span>). The rendering roebuck<\/em> is better suited to the description of the next kind of animals mentioned and which A. V. translates fallow deer<\/em>.<\/p>\n fatted fowl<\/em> ] The word rendered ‘fowl,’ is found only in this passage. The Chaldee paraphrase, as well as the Syriac and the Vulgate interpret it thus, so that we have full support from Jewish tradition. Kimchi thinks common fowls are meant. Gesenius, connecting the word with a root signifying pure<\/em>, thinks geese or swans may be intended.<\/p>\n Harts … – <\/B>The exact sorts of wild land animals here intended are very uncertain. Perhaps it would be best to translate wild-goats, gazelles, and wild oxen, which abounded in the wilder parts of Syria, from where Solomon would be supplied. (See 1Ki 4:24<\/span>.) (Yahmur, or the roebuck, gives its name to a valley in a wooded district, south of Carmel (Conder).) The use of game at the royal banquets of Assyria appears in the sculptures.<\/P><\/p>\n Ten fat oxen, <\/B>fitted in stalls. <\/P> Out of the pastures; <\/B>well fleshed, tender, and good, though not so fat as the former. <\/P> <\/p>\n Ten fat oxen<\/strong>,…. Such as were kept up in the stall and fatted:<\/p>\n and twenty oxen out of the pastures<\/strong>; which were killed as they were taken from thence, and not put up to be fed:<\/p>\n and an hundred sheep<\/strong>; out of the folds:<\/p>\n beside harts, and roebucks, and fallow deer<\/strong>; which were clean creatures, according to the Levitical law, De 14:5<\/span>; 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 Mt 22:4<\/span>;<\/p>\n and fatted fowl<\/strong>; such as we call capons a; some Jewish writers b, 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 , which were without a voice, that neither heard men, nor knew their voice c.<\/p>\n a So David de Pomis, Tzemach David, fol. 12. 3. and some in Kimchi in loc. b Baal Aruch & R. Elias Levit. Tishbi, in voce . c Scholia in Aristoph. Aves, p. 550.<\/p>\n (23) On this side the river.<\/strong>This translation, although it expresses the true reference, viz., to the country west of the Euphrates, is literally incorrect. The words mean, on the further side of the river, considered from the point of view of Babylon (see the use in the later books, or in Ezr. 4:6<\/span>; Ezr. 6:6<\/span>, &c.); and accordingly indicate composition at the time of the Exile, or, at any rate, at a period when the Babylonish empire was so established in supreme sovereignty as to determine the geographical nomenclature of the East.<\/p>\n 23<\/strong>. <\/strong> Twenty oxen out of the pastures <\/strong> Such as had been taken immediately from the field, in distinction from such as had been stallfed. It is said that one hundred oxen were daily slaughtered for the kings of Persia; and Tavernier relates that as many as five hundred sheep and lambs were daily consumed at the court of the Sultan. <\/p>\n Harts roebucks fallow deer <\/strong> Various species of the genus cervus, <\/em> or deer family. See Deu 12:15<\/span>; Deu 14:5<\/span>. <\/p>\n Fatted fowl <\/strong> Domesticated poultry.<\/p>\n 1Ki 4:23<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>And fatted fowl<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> See Neh 5:18<\/span>. <\/p>\n 1Ki 4:23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.<\/p>\n Ver. 23. Ten fat oxen and fatted fowl.] Lectissima quaeque altilia; <\/em> yet not with such luxury and gormandise as sundry Roman emperors. Anthony, who contended with Cleopatra in prodigal spending upon a banquet, and wrote, or rather vomited out a book of his own intemperances. Geta the emperor would have his dishes served in by the alphabet, viz., anserem, anatem, aprum; aliquando fasianum, farra, ficus; aliquando pullum, pavunem, perdicem, &c.<\/em> a<\/em> Caligula would have his bread gilded. Well might Nasica say of Rome, when nothing so luxurious, Stant moenia, ruunt mores; <\/em> The walls indeed stand, but good manners are fallen to the ground and abolished. Not so at Jerusalem in Solomon’s days. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n a<\/em> Bruson., lib. iii. cap. 1.<\/p>\n Ten fat: Neh 5:17, Neh 5:18 <\/p>\n 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. <\/p>\n roebucks: See note on Deu 15:22. <\/p>\n 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. <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Deu 14:4 – General 1Sa 8:12 – and will set 1Ki 10:5 – the meat 1Ki 12:4 – our yoke 2Ch 9:4 – the meat Ecc 5:11 – they Isa 3:7 – neither bread Dan 1:5 – a daily<\/p>\n Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallow deer, and fatted fowl. 23. roebucks ] The Hebrew word ( ) is rendered by the LXX. i.e. a gazelle. It is akin to the proper name Tabitha, i.e. (Act 9:36). 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