2 Chronicles 2:10

2:10 Look, I will pay your servants who cut the timber 20,000 kors ¹  of ground wheat, 20,000 kors of barley, 120,000 gallons ²  of wine, and 120,000 gallons of olive oil.”

2 Chronicles 2:16

2:16 we will get all the timber you need from Lebanon ³  and bring it ⁴  in raft-like bundles ⁵  by sea to Joppa. You can then haul it on up to Jerusalem.”

2 Chronicles 9:11

9:11 With the timber the king made steps ⁶  for the Lord’s temple and royal palace as well as stringed instruments ⁷  for the musicians. No one had seen anything like them in the land of Judah prior to that. ⁸ )

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¹ sn As a unit of dry measure a kor was roughly equivalent to six bushels (about 220 liters).

² tn Heb “20,000 baths” (also a second time later in this verse). A bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons (about 22 liters), so this was a quantity of about 120,000 gallons (440,000 liters).

³ tn Heb “and we will cut down trees from Lebanon according to all your need.”

⁴ tn Heb “to you,” but this phrase has not been translated for stylistic reasons – it is somewhat redundant.

⁵ tn Or “on rafts.” See the note at 1 Kgs 5:9.

⁶ tn Heb “tracks.” The parallel text in 1 Kgs 10:12 has a different term whose meaning is uncertain: “supports,” perhaps “banisters” or “parapets.”

⁷ tn Two types of stringed instruments are specifically mentioned in the Hebrew text, the כִּנּוֹר (kinnor, “zither”) and נֶבֶל (nevel, “harp”).

⁸ tn Heb “there was not seen like these formerly in the land of Judah.”