1 Kings 5:11
ContextNETBible | and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors 1 of wheat as provision for his royal court, 2 as well as 20,000 baths 3 of pure 4 olive oil. 5 |
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NET © Notes |
1 sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels. 2 tn Heb “his house.” 3 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. 4 tn Or “pressed.” 5 tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.” |