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The text lists large quantities of fine flour and meal, multiple herds, sheep, and deer as daily food for Solomon’s household (1 Kings 4:22-23). It also notes provision for horses and swift steeds in their places (1 Kings 4:27-28). The details highlight the scale of the royal table.
22Solomon`s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,
23ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.
24For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides round about him.
25Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
26Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
27Those officers provided victuals for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon`s table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking.
28Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they to the place where [the officers] were, every man according to his charge.