1 Kings 5:6

5:6 So now order some cedars of Lebanon to be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants. I will pay your servants whatever you say is appropriate, for you know that we have no one among us who knows how to cut down trees like the Sidonians.”

1 Kings 5:9-11

5:9 My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate. ¹  There I will separate the logs ²  and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.” ³ 

5:10 So Hiram supplied the cedars and evergreens Solomon needed, ⁴  5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors ⁵  of wheat as provision for his royal court, ⁶  as well as 20,000 baths ⁷  of pure ⁸  olive oil. ⁹ 

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¹ tn Heb “I will place them [on? as?] rafts in the sea to the place where you designate to me.” This may mean he would send them by raft, or that he would tie them in raft-like bundles, and have ships tow them down to an Israelite port.

² tn Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.

³ tn Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”

⁴ tn Heb “and Hiram gave to Solomon cedar wood and the wood of evergreens, all his desire.”

⁵ sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

⁶ tn Heb “his house.”

⁷ 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.

⁸ tn Or “pressed.”

⁹ tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”