◄ 1 Kings 4:23 ►
Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallow deer, and fatted fowl.
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Nehemiah 5:17,18 Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers...

harts Dr. Shaw understands {ayil} as the name of the genu, 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.

roe-bucks [See note on

Deuteronomy 15:22 You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, 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

20Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry. 21And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life. 22And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and three score measures of meal, 23Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallow deer, and fatted fowl. 24For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him. 25And Judah and Israel dwelled safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. 26And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. 27And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing. 28Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they to the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.
Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and 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.

Darby Bible Translation
ten fatted oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and fallow-deer, and fatted fowl.

King James Bible
Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.

Young's Literal Translation
ten fat oxen, and twenty feeding oxen, and a hundred sheep, apart from hart, and roe, and fallow-deer, and fatted beasts of the stalls,

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