Verse 7
I got me servants and maidens ,.... Menservants, and maidservants; the Targum adds,
"of the children of Ham, and of the rest of the strange people;'
these were such as he hired, or bought with his money;
and had servants born in my house ; and these were all employed by him; either as his retinue and equipage, his attendants and bodyguards; or to take care of his household, his gardens, and pools; or for his horses and chariots, and for various offices; see 1 Kings 4:26 , Ezra 2:58 . Villalpandus computes the number of his servants to be forty eight thousand; if there were any pleasure and happiness in such a numerous attendance, Solomon had it;
also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me ; oxen, cows, horses, asses, camels, mules, &c.; also sheep and goats; which, as they were profitable, so it was pleasant to see them grazing on the hills and valleys, in the fields, mountains, and meadows.
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