Komentaryo sa 1 Mga Hari 1:9: Tze'enah Ure'enah, Rashi & Ralbag

“Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fatlings, etc.” [1:9]. Adonijah slaughtered fat sheep and cattle near a large stone called Even Hazolahet. Why was it called Even Hazolahet? That is because young men would attempt to move the stone.⁹Rashi, I Kings, 1:9. The one who could move it, would be a hero. It was at that stone that Adonijah slaughtered the sheep and cattle. The stone was near a well where people would wash their clothes.¹⁰Rashi, I Kings, 1:9. This is the translation of Ein Rogel. Adonijah invited all of his brother princes and all of his people from Judah, the servants of the king. He did not invite Nathan the prophet and Benaiah, the warriors, and Solomon his brother.

And fattened [oxen]. Oxen which are [fattened by being] fed forcefully.

and fatlings: This is one of the kinds of large, fat cattle.

The stone of Zocheles. A huge stone used by the young men to test their strength by moving or dragging it. An expression similar to “moving [זוחלין]”²⁰See Misnayoy Mikvaos 5:4,5. water, or, “those that creep [זוחלי] on the earth.”²¹Devarim 32:24. [Targum] Yonoson rendered [אבן זוחלת as] אבן סכותא [=a lookout stone], upon which people stand and look far into the distance.

Ein-Rogel. [Targum] Yonoson rendered [עין רוגל as] עין קצרא, which is [a well]²²It was customary to anoint kings near a well or another source of running water to symbolize continuity and prolonged rule. See Rashi 1:33 below. used by a clothes washer who would press the woolen clothes with his feet [=רגליו], by trampling [on them].