Each day one ox, six choice sheep, and some fowl were prepared for me, and once every ten days an abundance of all kinds of wine was provided. But I did not demand the food allotted to the governor, because the burden on the people was so heavy. Cross References 2 Thessalonians 3:8 nor did we eat anyone's food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you. 1 Kings 4:22 Solomon's provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal, 1 Kings 4:23 ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry. Treasury of Scripture Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy on this people. Now that 1 Kings 4:22,23 required Nehemiah 5:14,15 because the bondage Psalm 37:21,26 |
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