1 Kings 4:22

4:22 Each day Solomon’s royal court consumed thirty cors of finely milled flour, sixty cors of cereal,

1 Kings 4:28

4:28 Each one also brought to the assigned location his quota of barley and straw for the various horses.

1 Kings 7:16

7:16 He made two bronze tops for the pillars; each was seven-and-a-half feet high.

1 Kings 10:16

10:16 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures of gold were used for each shield.

1 Kings 17:6

17:6 The ravens would bring him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he would drink from the stream.


tn Heb “the food of Solomon for each day was.”

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

tn Heb “barley and straw for the horses and the steeds they brought to the place which was there, each according to his measure.”

tn Heb “two capitals he made to place on the tops of the pillars, cast in bronze; five cubits was the height of the first capital, and five cubits was the height of the second capital.”

tn The Hebrew text has simply “six hundred,” with no unit of measure given.