1 Kings 1:39

1:39 Zadok the priest took a horn filled with olive oil ¹  from the tent and poured it on ²  Solomon; the trumpet was blown and all the people declared, “Long live King Solomon!”

1 Kings 5:11

5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors ³  of wheat as provision for his royal court, ⁴  as well as 20,000 baths ⁵  of pure ⁶  olive oil. ⁷ 

1 Kings 6:32

6:32 On the two doors made of olive wood he carved ⁸  cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom, and he plated them with gold. ⁹  He plated the cherubs and the palm trees with hammered gold. ¹⁰ 

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¹ tn Heb “the horn of oil.” This has been specified as olive oil in the translation for clarity.

sn A horn filled with oil. An animal’s horn was used as an oil flask in the anointing ceremony.

² tn Or “anointed.”

³ sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

⁴ tn Heb “his house.”

⁵ tc The Hebrew text has “twenty cors,” but the ancient Greek version and the parallel text in 2 Chr 2:10 read “twenty thousand baths.”

sn A bath was a liquid measure equivalent to almost six gallons.

⁶ tn Or “pressed.”

⁷ tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”

⁸ tn Heb “carved carvings of.”

⁹ tn Heb “he plated [with] gold” (the precise object is not stated).

¹⁰ tn Heb “and he hammered out the gold on the cherubs and the palm trees.”