Discovery Box1 Kings 4:24 
Context4:24 His royal court was so large because 1 he ruled over all the kingdoms west of the Euphrates River from Tiphsah 2 to Gaza; he was at peace with all his neighbors. 3
1 Kings 5:11
Context5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors 4 of wheat as provision for his royal court, 5 as well as 20,000 baths 6 of pure 7 olive oil. 8
1 tn Heb “because.” The words “his royal court was so large” are added to facilitate the logical connection with the preceding verse.
2 sn Tiphsah. This was located on the Euphrates River.
3 tn Heb “for he was ruling over all [the region] beyond the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kingdoms beyond the River, and he had peace on every side all around.”
4 sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.
5 tn Heb “his house.”
6 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.
7 tn Or “pressed.”
8 tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”
