Discovery Box1 Kings 4:7 
Context4:7 Solomon had twelve district governors appointed throughout Israel who acquired supplies for the king and his palace. Each was responsible for one month in the year.
1 Kings 4:22-23
Context4:22 Each day Solomon’s royal court consumed 1 thirty cors 2 of finely milled flour, sixty cors of cereal, 4:23 ten calves fattened in the stall, 3 twenty calves from the pasture, and a hundred sheep, not to mention rams, gazelles, deer, and well-fed birds.
1 Kings 4:27-28
Context4:27 The district governors acquired supplies for King Solomon and all who ate in his royal palace. 4 Each was responsible for one month in the year; they made sure nothing was lacking. 4:28 Each one also brought to the assigned location his quota of barley and straw for the various horses. 5
1 tn Heb “the food of Solomon for each day was.”
2 tn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.
3 tn The words “in the stall” are added for clarification; note the immediately following reference to cattle from the pasture.
4 tn Heb “everyone who drew near to the table of King Solomon.”
5 tn Heb “barley and straw for the horses and the steeds they brought to the place which was there, each according to his measure.”
