◄ 1 Kings 4:23 ►
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Good News Translation
10 stall-fed cattle, 20 pasture-fed cattle, and 100 sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and poultry.

New Revised Standard Version
ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, one hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fatted fowl.

Contemporary English Version
10 grain-fed cattle, 20 pasture-fed cattle, 100 sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, and geese.

New American Bible
ten fatted oxen, twenty pasture-fed oxen, and a hundred sheep, not counting harts, gazelles, roebucks, and fatted fowl.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Ten fat oxen, and twenty out of the pastures, and a hundred rams; besides venison of harts, roes, and buffles, and fatted fowls.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ten fat oxen, and twenty out of the pastures, and a hundred rams; besides venison of harts, roes, and buffles, and fatted fowls.

Ten fat

Nehemiah 5:17,18 The Jews also and the magistrates to the number of one hundred and fifty men, were at my table, besides them that came to us from among the nations that were round about us. . . .

harts Dr.

roe-bucks [See note on

Deuteronomy 15:22 But thou shalt eat it within the gates of thy city: the clean and the unclean shall eat them alike, as the roe and as the hart.

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fallow-deer. {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 great deal of it, in the countries where the animal abounds.' Niebuhr, Descrip. de l'Arab p.

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Context
Solomon's Wealth
…22And the provision of Solomon, for each day, was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal; 23Ten fat oxen, and twenty out of the pastures, and a hundred rams; besides venison of harts, roes, and buffles, and fatted fowls.24For he had all the country which was beyond the river, from Thaphsa to Gazan, and all the kings of those countries: and he had peace on every side round about.…
Cross References
1 Kings 4:22
And the provision of Solomon, for each day, was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal;

1 Kings 4:24
For he had all the country which was beyond the river, from Thaphsa to Gazan, and all the kings of those countries: and he had peace on every side round about.

Nehemiah 5:18
And there was prepared for me day be day one ox, and six choice rams, besides fowls, and once in ten days I gave store of divers wines, and many other things: yet I did not require my yearly allowance as governor: for the people were very much impoverished.

Ecclesiastes 2:7
I got me menservants, and maidservants, and had a great family: and herds of oxen, and great flocks of sheep, above all that were before me in Jerusalem:

1 Kings 4:22
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