1 Kings 4:27

And the foresaid governors of the king fed them: and they furnished the necessaries also for king Solomon's table, with great care in their time.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon’s table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.

In Context

26And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of chariot horses, and twelve thou- sand for the saddle.

28They brought barley also and straw for the horses, and beasts, to the place where the king was, according as it was appointed them.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 8:12And he will appoint of them to be his tribunes, and centurions, and to plough his fields, and to reap his corn, and to make him arms and chariots.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 4:21-29

The Supply of Solomon's Household. ( b. c. 1014.) 20 Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry. 21 And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life. 22 And Solomon's provision 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… Read the whole commentary →

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