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11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors [a] of wheat as provision for his royal court,[b] as well as 120,000 gallons[c] of pure[d] olive oil.[e]

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  1. 1 Kings 5:11 sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.
  2. 1 Kings 5:11 tn Heb “his house.”
  3. 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).
  4. 1 Kings 5:11 tn Or “pressed.”
  5. 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.”

11 and Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors[a] of wheat as food(A) for his household, in addition to twenty thousand baths[b][c] of pressed olive oil. Solomon continued to do this for Hiram year after year.

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  1. 1 Kings 5:11 That is, probably about 3,600 tons or about 3,250 metric tons
  2. 1 Kings 5:11 Septuagint (see also 2 Chron. 2:10); Hebrew twenty cors
  3. 1 Kings 5:11 That is, about 120,000 gallons or about 440,000 liters