1 Kings / Question
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.
In 1 Kings 4:22–28, the writer lists the enormous daily food required for Solomon’s court and then explains why such a system could run smoothly: Solomon’s wide control brought stable conditions, and appointed officers reliably supplied provisions in an orderly rotation. This unit sits within a larger description of Solomon’s administration and prosperity in 1 Kings 4. Just before this, the text has described officials and regional officers who supply the court (the “who” and “how” of governance).
The passage paints a picture of Solomon’s reign at its height: huge daily provisions, a wide sphere of control, and a population described as living in security (verses 22–25).
A careful answer keeps the immediate passage, the book's argument, and the whole-Bible storyline together, so the question is answered in context instead of as a detached idea.
Start with 1 Kings 4:22-23, then read the surrounding section so the answer stays connected to the passage's flow.
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.