* silver.
1Ki 9:14,28 10:10 14:21,22,27 2Ch 9:11,15-21
* men singers.
2Sa 19:35 Ezr 2:65
* musical instruments, etc. Heb. musical instrument and
instruments.
1Ch 25:1,6 Job 21:11,12 Ps 150:3-5 Da 3:5,7,15 Am 6:5
The difficult words {shiddah weshiddoth} are variously
rendered. The LXX. have [oinocoon kai oinochoas,] "male
and female cup-bearers," with which the Syriac and Arabic and
Parkhurst agree; Aquila, [kulikon kai kulikia,] "a cup
and smaller cups;" Jerome, {scyphos et urceolos, (Vulg.
{urceos,}) "goblets and pots;" Targum, "warm and cold baths;"
others, as M. Desvoeux, "male and female captives;" others,
"cooks and confectioners;" others, "a species of musical
compositions," derived from Sido, a celebrated Phoenician
woman, to whom Sanchoniatho attributes the invention of music;
but others, with more probability, "wives and concubines;" and
{siddoth} may be in this sense synonymous with the Arabic
{seedat, domina, conjux} from {sada,} in {Conj. V. conjugium
inivit.} Of the former, Solomon had three hundred, and of the
latter, seven hundred; and if they are not mentioned here they
are not mentioned at all, which is wholly unaccountable.
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