Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, by R.A. Torrey, [ca. 1880], at sacred-texts.com
3 Kings (1 Kings) Chapter 4
Overview
Kg1 4:1, Solomon's princes; Kg1 4:7, His twelve officers for provision; Kg1 4:20, The peace and largeness of his kingdom; Kg1 4:22, His daily provision; Kg1 4:26, His stables; Kg1 4:29, His wisdom.
over all Israel: Kg1 11:13, Kg1 11:35, Kg1 11:36, Kg1 12:19, Kg1 12:20; Sa2 5:5; Ch1 12:38; Ch2 9:30; Ecc 1:12
the princes: That is, great, chief, or principal men; for none of them were princes, in the common acceptation of the word. Exo 18:21; Sa2 8:15-18, Sa2 20:23-26; Co1 12:28
Azariah: Ch1 6:8-10, Ch1 27:17
priest: or, chief officer
Shisha: Sa2 20:25, Sheva, Ch1 18:6, Shavsha
scribes: or, secretaries
recorder: or, remembrancer. Sa2 8:16, Sa2 20:24; Ch1 18:15; Isa 62:6 *marg.
Benaiah: Kg1 2:35
Zadok: Kg1 2:26, Kg1 2:27, Kg1 2:35
son of Nathan: 1Kings 1:10-53; Sa2 7:2, Sa2 12:1-15, Sa2 12:25
the officers: Kg1 4:7
the principal: Sa2 8:18, Sa2 20:26
the king's: Sa2 15:37, Sa2 16:16, Sa2 19:37, Sa2 19:38; Ch1 27:33; Pro 22:11; Joh 13:23; Joh 15:14, Joh 15:15; Jam 2:23
Adoniram: Kg1 12:18; Sa2 20:24, Adoram
tribute: or, levy, Kg1 5:13, Kg1 5:14, Kg1 9:15
officers: These are doubtless to be considered as general receivers; for, as Sir John Chardin observes, "the revenues of the princes of the East are paid in the fruits and productions of the earth. there are no other taxes on the peasants."
each man: Ch1 27:1-15
The son of Hur: or, Ben-hur, Jdg 17:1, Jdg 19:1
The son of Dekar: or, Ben-dekar
Shaalbim: Jos 19:42, Shaalabbin
Bethshemesh: Sa1 6:12, Sa1 6:20
The son of Hesed: or, Ben-hesed
Sochoh: Jos 15:35
The son of Abinadab: or, Ben-abinadab
Dor: Jos 12:23, Jos 17:11; Jdg 1:27
Bethshean: Sa1 31:10, Sa1 31:12
Zartanah: Kg1 7:46, Zarthan, Jos 3:16, Zaretan
Jezreel: Kg1 18:46
Abelmeholah: Kg1 19:16
The son of Geber: or, Ben-geber
Ramothgilead: Kg1 22:3; Deu 4:43; Jos 20:8, Jos 21:38; Kg2 9:1, Kg2 9:14
the towns: Num 32:41; Deu 3:14
Argob: Deu 3:4, Deu 3:8, Deu 3:13, Deu 3:14; Psa 22:12, Psa 68:15
threescore great cities: These were the fortified cities; their gates and bars being covered with plates of brass.
Mahanaim: or, to Mahanaim, Gen 32:2; Sa2 2:8, Sa2 17:24, Sa2 17:27
Naphtali: Jos 19:32-39
the daughter: Kg1 4:11; Sa1 18:18
Asher: Jos 19:24-31
Issachar: Jos 19:17-23
Benjamin: Jos 18:20-28
the country of Sihon: Num 21:21-35; Deu 2:26-37, 3:1-17; Jos 13:9-12
as the sand: Kg1 3:8; Gen 13:16, Gen 15:5, Gen 22:17; Pro 14:28
eating: Sa1 30:16; Ch1 12:39; Job 1:18; Psa 72:3-7; Ecc 2:24; Isa 22:13; Mic 4:4; Zac 3:10, Zac 9:15; Act 2:46
Solomon: Kg1 4:24; Gen 15:18; Exo 23:31; Deu 11:24; Jos 1:4; Ch2 9:26-31; Ezr 4:20; Psa 72:8-11
brought: Sa1 10:27; Kg2 17:3; Ch2 17:5, Ch2 32:23; Psa 68:29, Psa 72:10, Psa 72:11, Psa 76:11
provision: Heb. bread
measures: Heb. cors, Kg1 4:22
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.
roebucks: See note on Deu 15:22.
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.
Azzah: Gen 10:19; Jdg 16:1, Gaza
all the kings: Kg1 4:21; Psa 72:8, Psa 72:11
had peace: Kg1 5:4; Ch1 22:9; Psa 72:3, Psa 72:7; Isa 9:7; Luk 2:14; Heb 7:1, Heb 7:2
safely: Heb. confidently, Isa 60:18; Jer 23:5, Jer 23:6, Jer 33:15, Jer 33:16; Eze 38:11 *marg.
every man: Kg2 18:31; Mic 4:4; Zac 3:10
from Dan: Jdg 20:1; Sa2 17:11, Sa2 24:15
forty thousand: Kg1 10:25, Kg1 10:26; Deu 17:16; Sa2 8:4; Ch2 1:14, Ch2 9:25; Psa 20:7
those officers: Kg1 4:7-19
dromedaries: or, mules, or swift beasts, Est 8:10, Est 8:14; Mic 1:13
God: Kg1 3:12, Kg1 3:28, Kg1 10:23, Kg1 10:24; Ch2 1:10-12; Psa 119:34; Pro 2:6; Ecc 1:16, Ecc 2:26; Jam 1:5, Jam 1:17, Jam 3:17
largeness: Isa 60:5
as the sand: Kg1 4:20; Gen 41:49; Jdg 7:12; Jer 33:22; Hab 1:9
the children: Gen 25:6; Job 1:3; Dan 1:20, Dan 4:7, Dan 5:11, Dan 5:12; Mat 2:1, Mat 2:16
the wisdom of Egypt: Isa 19:11, Isa 19:12; Act 7:22
wiser: Kg1 3:12; Mat 12:42; Luk 11:31; Col 2:3
Ethan: Ch1 15:19; Psa 89:1 *title
Heman: Ch1 2:6, Ch1 6:33, Ch1 15:17; Psa 88:1 *title
his fame: Kg1 5:7, Kg1 10:1, Kg1 10:6; Ch2 9:23; Mat 4:24
he spake: Prov. 1:1-31:30; Ecc 12:9; Mat 13:35
songs: Song 1:1-17
the cedar tree: The word airez, whence the Chaldee and Syriac arzo, and the Arabic and Ethiopic arz, and Spanish alerze, unquestionably denotes the cedar; it is thus rendered by the LXX and other versions, κεδρος, and by the Vulgate cedrus; and the inhabitants of mount Lebanon still call it ars. The cedar is a large and nobel evergreen tree, and grows on the most elevated part of the mountain, is taller than the pine, and so thick that five men together could scarcely fathom one. It shoots out its branches at ten or twelve feet from the ground; they are large and distant from each other, and are perpetually green. The wood is of a brown colour, very solid and incorruptible, if preserved from wet. The tree bears a small cone, like that of the pine. Num 24:6; Kg2 19:23; Psa 92:12
the hyssop: Exo 12:22; Num 19:18; Psa 51:7; Heb 9:19
of beasts: Gen 1:20-25