Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 10:5

5 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants , and the attendance of his ministers , and their apparel , and his cup-bearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD : there was no more spirit in her .

i. e. The order and manner in which his Courtiers, or other Subjects (who all were his servants in a general sense) sat down at Meals, at several Tables in his Court.

To wit, upon the King▪ both at his Table, and elsewhere in his Court; and when he went abroad to the Temple or other places.

Both the costliness of it, and especially the conveniency of it to their several Places and Offices.

From his own Palace. See 2 King. 16. 18. But the Ancients, and some others, Translate the words thus, and the burnt-offerings which he offered up in the house of the Lord; under which, as the chief, all other Sacrifices are understood: when she saw the manner of his offering Sacrifices to the Lord, which doubtless she would not neglect to see; and in the ordering of which she might discern many Characters of excellent Wisdom, especially when she had so excellent an Interpreter as Solomon was, to inform her of the reasons of all the circumstances of that Service.

She was astonished, and wrapt up in a kind of exta[illegible: 1+ letters]ie, and could scarce determine whether she did really see these things, or whether it was not onely a pleasant Dream.

Marginal references: Heb. standing▪; Or, butlers▪