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1 Kings 5:11

Context
NETBible

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 

XREF

1Ki 4:22; 2Ch 2:10

NET © Notes

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

tn Heb “his house.”

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.

tn Or “pressed.”

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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