Bible Strands
1 Kings 4:23
ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records the daily provisions required for Solomon’s court, listing the specific livestock and game allocated to sustain his table each day. This inventory sits between descriptions of his grain and meal supplies and the statement of his territorial dominion.
The words — בְּרִאִ֗ים (be.ri.'Im) = fat and רְעִ֖י (re.'I) = pasture appear in the list to distinguish the ten specially fattened oxen from the twenty oxen raised on open range.
The thread — Nehemiah 5:17 documents the number of officials and guests at a leader’s table but does not list food provisions, which the following verse details. Both texts record the administrative logistics of sustaining an official household, though only 1 Kings 4:23 enumerates the meat inventory.
Why it lands — The text quantifies the daily slaughter and procurement demanded by a ruler’s table, requiring the reader to account for the material cost of maintaining political and social structures.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
Cross-references
- Nehemiah 5:17 There were 150 Jews and officials at my table, besides the guests from the surrounding nations.