מלכים א ד׳

מלך על כל ישראל. משראו בחכמתו, שמחו כולם במלכותו:

King over all of Yisroel. When they observed his wisdom they all rejoiced in his kingship.¹And no one opposed him.—Radak

סופרים. לכתוב דברי הימים:

Scribes. To write the [king’s] chronicles.

המזכיר. איזה משפט בא לפניו ראשון, שיפסקנו ראשון, כך שמעתי:

The secretary. [To record] which legal case came before him first that he might rule on it first.²I.e., he was a court administrator. Thus have I heard.

על הנצבים. שנים עשר נציבים היו, לכלכל את המלך ואת ביתו:

Over the officers. He had twelve officers to provide sustenance for the king and his household.

על המס. שהעלה על ישראל, כמה שנאמר (לקמן ה כז): ויעל המלך שלמה מס:

The tax commissioner. Which he [Shlomo] had raised on [Bnei] Yisroel, as it is stated, “And Shlomo haMelech raised a tax.”³Below 5:27.

וכלכלו את המלך. כל סעודתו, ומאכל הסוסים, וכל צרכי הוצאה:

And they provided sustenance for the king. All his meals, and food of the horses and all expenditures for his necessities.⁴See I Shmuel 8:11-18. There it describes that the king had a right to demand all these things. Shmuel had told the people the king’s rights before he anointed Shaul.

נפת דאר. (תרגום:) פלכי דאר:

Nofas-dor. [Targum Yonoson rendered,] the district [פלך] of Dor.

חבל ארגוב. ממונה היה עליהם לגבות מס המלך, כי משפט המלך יש לגבות יציאותיו מן העם, כמה שנאמר במשפט המלוכה בספר שמואל (א י כה):

The Argov region. He [Gever’s son] was appointed over them to collect the king’s tax, because the rules pertaining to the monarchy allow for his expenditures to be collected from the people, as it is stated in the rules pertaining to the monarchy, in the book of Shmuel.⁵See Ibid.

ונציב אחד אשר בארץ. רב ושמואל פליגי, חד אמר: אחד ממונה על כולם, הוא עזריה בן נתן האמור למעלה, וחד אמר: כנגד חודש העיבור (סנהדרין יב א):

And one officer over the land. Rav and Shmuel have differing opinions, one says, one was appointed over all of them, and this was Azaryoh[u] the son of Noson, who was mentioned previously,⁶Above v. 5. and one says he was [appointed] for the thirteenth month.⁷I.e., the purpose of appointing a thirteenth officer was to take care of the king for the thirteenth month of a leap year. See Maseches Sanhedrin 12a.