1 Kings 5:11
9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire.
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.
12 And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.
13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
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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
And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
Read in context1 Kings 4:22
And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
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