10 I will give your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors[a] of ground wheat, twenty thousand cors[b] of barley, twenty thousand baths[c] of wine and twenty thousand baths of olive oil.’

11 Hiram king of Tyre replied by letter to Solomon:

‘Because the Lord loves his people, he has made you their king.’

12 And Hiram added:

‘Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth! He has given King David a wise son, endowed with intelligence and discernment, who will build a temple for the Lord and a palace for himself.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 2:10 That is, probably about 3,200 metric tons of wheat
  2. 2 Chronicles 2:10 That is, probably about 2,700 metric tons of barley
  3. 2 Chronicles 2:10 That is, about 440,000 litres