Talmud zu Mischlej 16:12

‘The Torah is greater than kingship, inasmuch as kingship [is acquired] in the form of thirty distinctions.’ What are they?¹⁷⁴The list is partly based on Eccl. 2, 4ff., which describes a king’s wealth. By silver, gold, women, menservants, maidservants, houses, vineyards, gardens, parks, family, treasures,¹⁷⁵Cf. ibid. 8. provinces, male singers, female singers, delicacies, demons and demonesses,¹⁷⁶ibid. shiddah weshiddoth which is variously translated: A.J. women, very many; A.V. musical instruments; R.V. concubines. The Talmud, Giṭ. 68a (Sonc. ed., p. 322) records that it was rendered ‘male and female demons’ in Babylon and ‘carriages’ in Palestine. horses, chariots, the sword, garments, armaments, troops, spices,¹⁷⁷V repeats ‘chariots’ here, omitted by H. counsellors, guards, spies, justice and righteousness, as it is stated, For the throne is established by righteousness.¹⁷⁸Prov. 16, 12.