I Kings - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 348

5--2 THE MONARCHICAL PERIOD.~·~I. KINGS. 5--24 IO II country of the Philishtim and to the border of the Mitzeraim} and they lay under tribute and service to Solomon all the time of his life. And the provision for Solomon for a single day was thirty kors of line Hour and sixty kors of meal, ten fat bullocks, and twenty grazed bullocks, and a hundred sheep, beside goats, and venison, and fat poultry. For he also ruled over all beyond the River, from Thifsah to Azah,·—in all the kingdoms beyond the River, and he kept peace for all his subjects around. And ]udah and Israel lived in security, every one under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan to Bersheba, all the period of Solomon. Solomon also had stalls for forty

thousand horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand cavalry, and the Governors provided these for King Solomon. Besides which they pro- vided King Solomon’s table each in his month. Nothing was omitted. They brought barley and straw for the horses and hunters to the places where they were, every one as instructed. Snlnmmt ur s Scientist. And Gon gave to Solomon very

great wisdom and understanding, and wide intelligence, like the sand on the sea shore. For Solomon’s scientific knowledge was more extensive than the science of all the Beni-Kedem,3 and than all the science of the Mitzeraim! He knew more than all men of the orbits of the planets, of the origination of light, and dxed sustaining systems, and the results of the revolving spheres,5 and his 1 Ept.—F. F th gy,at is, the districts now cal ed Persia and Bein- chistan tothe Rive1·Indus.—··F. F. 8 Sons of the East: Cha1deans.—F. ,F. * Eytians.—F. F ip. I e ieve the above to be the real pur-

port. of this passage which the Mediaeval translators not understanding, as it contains the technical terminology of cosmical sciences of which they had lost all knowledge, trans- I am a formed it i nto proper names. lso satished the same lunder has been made in similar cases in many other passages of Scripture. I have, therefore, rejected the old versions entirely, and give the real f the Heb rived nrport orew text, as arat gy philological analysis. Solomon, in fact, understood what we now call the Copernican and Newtonian principles of Astronomy, and Cosmogony.-F. Fpwrox. fame was spread among all the nations around. He also wrote three thousand proverbs, and his songs were one thousand and live. And he wrote about botany as well, from the Cedar upon Lebanon, to the messes that grow upon walls; and studied the zoology of beasts, and birds, and reptiles, and nsh. So that persons came from all the nations to listen to the sciences of Solomon, from all the kingdoms of the earth who heard of his scientitic knowledge. I2

(ac. :014.) Ely: Qing uf Ugrz supplies is Sslsmmz Eintltzr for il): Uzuqrlz. Khirami King of Tzur” also sent 15 his ministers to Solomon, when he heard that he had been consecrated king as his father’s viceroy, for Khiram and David were friends all their time. Solomon accordingly You know David was not able to build a House to the name of the Evan-uvmo Gon, because the Evan-1,1v1No said to David my father, ‘Your son, whom I will place as your viceroy on your throne, shall build a house to _My name.’ So now therefore order them to cut for me Cedars from Lebanon, and my workmen shall be with your workmen,. and I yonr workmen. I will pay you whatever you agree, for you know there are not among us men who understand the cutting of timber as the Zidonians do.’ And when Khiram heard the de-

mands of Solomon he was greatly Thank the Evan- LIVING to-day who has given David a So I have heard what you have communi- cated to me. I will do all that you wish in Cedar and Fir timber. My workmen shall bring it from Lebanon to the sea, and I will direct in rafts on the sea. to whatever place you instruct me, and deliver it there, and you accept it, and make payment to me by providing food for my people. Consequently Khiramy supplied

Solomon with Cedar and Pine timber 1 I-Iiram.——F. F. 2 Tzur, T yre.—F. F. 348 :6

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