* 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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