”Now Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty kors of fine flour, sixty kors of meal, ten fatted oxen, twenty oxen from the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fatted fowl.“
I Kings 4:22-23 NKJV
a. Ten fatted oxen:…… This provision was for Solomon’s entire household and his royal court.
i. Some estimate that this much food every day could feed 15,000 to 36,000 people. It supplied considerably more than Solomon’s household, large as it was.
ii. Fatted oxen are pen-fed cattle in contrast to open grazing varieties.
b. Thirty kors of fine flour: The kor equaled 220 liters or about 55 gallons. We can accurately picture 30 55-gallon drums full of fine flour being delivered for every day.
c. One hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fatted fowl: This list is not meant to stress the idea of opulence and luxury; the stress is on the idea that this daily provision indicated the great prosperity of the kingdom.
i. “Whether Christianity helps a man to worldly success or not, it helps him to get all the good out of the world that the world can give. It may, or may not, give wealth, but it will make the ‘little that a righteous man hath better than the riches of many wicked.’” (Maclaren)
(Guzik)
Great Prosperity
I can’t imagine all the people required to prep, cook, bake and feed all those people!
I recall growing up in the fifties and sixties, the great prosperity of our country when the economy, housing and the automobile industries were booming!
But even if we have or experienced great prosperity it will be nothing like heaven and being with Jesus!
“Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.”
— Revelation 19:9 (KJV)
I look forward to that time, do you?
Blessings
No comments:
Post a Comment