1 Kings 4:7

4:7 Solomon had twelve district governors appointed throughout Israel who acquired supplies for the king and his palace. Each was responsible for one month in the year.

1 Kings 4:22-23

4:22 Each day Solomon’s royal court consumed thirty cors of finely milled flour, sixty cors of cereal, 4:23 ten calves fattened in the stall, twenty calves from the pasture, and a hundred sheep, not to mention rams, gazelles, deer, and well-fed birds.

1 Kings 4:27-28

4:27 The district governors acquired supplies for King Solomon and all who ate in his royal palace. Each was responsible for one month in the year; they made sure nothing was lacking. 4:28 Each one also brought to the assigned location his quota of barley and straw for the various horses.


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 The words “in the stall” are added for clarification; note the immediately following reference to cattle from the pasture.

tn Heb “everyone who drew near to the table of King Solomon.”

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