1 Kings 5:9-11

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. 1 Kings 5:9 tn Heb “I will place them [on? as?] rafts in the sea to the place where you designate to me.” This may mean he would send them by raft, or that he would tie them in raft-like bundles, and have ships tow them down to an Israelite port.
2. 1 Kings 5:9 tn Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.
3. 1 Kings 5:9 tn Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”
4. 1 Kings 5:10 tn Heb “and Hiram gave to Solomon cedar wood and the wood of evergreens, all his desire.”
5. 1 Kings 5:11 sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.
6. 1 Kings 5:11 tn Heb “his house.”
7. 1 Kings 5:11 tc The Hebrew text has “twenty cors,” but the ancient Greek version and the parallel text in 2 Chr 2:10 read “20,000 baths.” sn A bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons (about 22 liters), so this was a quantity of about 120,000 gallons (440,000 liters).
8. 1 Kings 5:11 tn Or “pressed.”
9. 1 Kings 5:11 tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with 20,000 cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”