Holy Scripture
1 Kings 5:4
A church father on this verse
“After this war one work remains for us, O leaders, that which Solomon achieved, The peaceful scion and the unarmed heir Of a warlike realm, whose father's weary hand Was sullied by the ardent blood of kings. The blood effaced, a temple is upraised And golden altar, house sublime of Christ. Jerusalem then by its temple…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
4For he had dominion on this side the river, and he was at peace on all sides round about.
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2And these were the requisite supplies for Solomon: in one day thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of fine pounded meal,
3and ten choice calves, and twenty pastured oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides stags, and choice fatted does.
— 1 Kings 5:4 —