1 Kings 4:23

Ten fat oxen ,.... Such as were kept up in the stall and fatted:

and twenty oxen out of the pastures ; which were killed as they were taken from thence, and not put up to be fed:

and an hundred sheep ; out of the folds:

beside harts, and roebucks, and fallow deer ; which were clean creatures, according to the Levitical law, Deuteronomy 14:5 ; these were hunted in fields, or taken out of the park, or were presents from other countries; so that here was plenty of beef, mutton, and venison: for the spiritual application of this to the antitypical Solomon, and his provisions, see Matthew 22:4 ;

and fatted fowl ; such as we call capons F1 So David de Pomis, Tzemach David, fol. 12. 3. and some in Kimchi in loc. ; some Jewish writers F2 Baal Aruch & R. Elias Levit. Tishbi, in voce ברבר . , because of the likeness of sound in the word here used, take them to be Barbary fowls, or such as were brought from that country: there is a sort of birds called βαρβαροι , which were without a voice, that neither heard men, nor knew their voice F3 Scholia in Aristoph. Aves, p. 550. .