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 6:14

6:14 and prayed: ³  “O Lord God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven or on earth! You maintain covenantal loyalty ⁴  to your servants who obey you with sincerity. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 6:27

6:27 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly ⁶  you will then teach them the right way to live ⁷  and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess. ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 9:4

9:4 the food in his banquet hall, ⁹  his servants and attendants ¹⁰  in their robes, his cupbearers in their robes, and his burnt sacrifices which he presented in the Lord’s temple, ¹¹  she was amazed. ¹² 

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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 “said.”

⁴ tn Heb “one who keeps the covenant and the loyal love.”

⁵ tn Heb “who walk before you with all their heart.”

⁶ tn The present translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense (“Certainly”). Other translation have “indeed” (NASB), “when” (NRSV), “so” (NEB), or leave the word untranslated (NIV).

⁷ tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”

⁸ tn Or “for an inheritance.”

⁹ tn Heb “the food on his table.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “the seating of his servants and the standing of his attendants.”

¹¹ tc The Hebrew text has here, “and his upper room [by] which he was going up to the house of the Lord.” But עֲלִיָּתוֹ (’aliyyato, “his upper room”) should be emended to עֹלָתוֹ, (’olato, “his burnt sacrifice[s]”). See the parallel account in 1 Kgs 10:5.

¹² tn Or “it took her breath away”; Heb “there was no breath still in her.”