Discovery Box1 Kings 1:39 
Context1:39 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
Context5:11 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.”
