Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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 upon this people.

Now that

Required

Because the bondage

Bible References

Now that

1 Kings 4:22
The food of Solomon for one day was thirty dry measures of choice meal and sixty dry measures of flour;

Required

Nehemiah 5:14
Moreover, from the appointed day I was made their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes--twelve years. My brothers and I did not eat the food [allowance] of the governor.

Because the bondage

Psalm 37:21
[The] wicked borrows and does not repay, but [the] righteous [is] gracious and gives.