1 Kings 4:22,23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Thirty measures of fine flour Hebrew, cors; each of which contained ten ephahs. So this provision was sufficient for near three thousand persons. Meal Of a coarser sort for common use. Ten fat oxen Fatted in stalls. Out of pastures Well fleshed, tender, and good, though not so fat as the former.

1 Kings 4:22-23

22 And Solomon's provisione for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,

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