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1 Kings 1:39

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1:39 Zadok the priest took a horn filled with olive oil 1  from the tent and poured it on 2  Solomon; the trumpet was blown and all the people declared, “Long live King Solomon!”

1 Kings 5:11

Context
5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors 3  of wheat as provision for his royal court, 4  as well as 20,000 baths 5  of pure 6  olive oil. 7 

1 tn Heb “the horn of oil.” This has been specified as olive oil in the translation for clarity.

sn A horn filled with oil. An animal’s horn was used as an oil flask in the anointing ceremony.

2 tn Or “anointed.”

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

4 tn Heb “his house.”

5 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.

6 tn Or “pressed.”

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



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