1 Kings 5:11
9 My servants will haul the logs from Lebanon to the Sea, and I will float them as rafts by sea to the place you specify. There I will separate the logs, and you can take them away. And in exchange, you can meet my needs by providing my household with food.”
10 So Hiram provided Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber he wanted,
and year after year Solomon would provide Hiram with 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, as well as 20,000 baths of pure olive oil.
12 And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
13 Then King Solomon conscripted a labor force of 30,000 men from all Israel.
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- BSB
- and year after year Solomon would provide Hiram with 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, as well as 20,000 baths of pure olive oil.
- KJV
- And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
- WEB
- Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat for food to his household, and twenty cors of pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.
- ASV
- And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
- DARBY
- And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat as food for his household, and twenty measures of beaten oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
- BLB
- And Solomon gave to Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat [as] food for his house, and twenty [thousand] baths of pressed oil. Thus Solomon gave to Hiram year by year.
- ÅB
- Og Salomo gav Hiram tyve tusen kor hvete til føde for hans hus og tyve kor olje av støtte oliven; så meget gav Salomo Hiram år etter år.
- OTB
- Salomo ga da Hiram tjue tusen kor hvete som mat for hans hus, og tjue kor av presset olje. Dette ga Salomo til Hiram år etter år.
- B1930
- Og Salomo gav Hiram tyve tusen kor hvete til føde for hans hus og tyve kor olje av støtte oliven; så meget gav Salomo Hiram år efter år.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Chronicles 2:10
I will pay your servants, the woodcutters, 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of olive oil.”
Read in context1 Kings 4:22
Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,
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