1Ki 5:11 | NETfull | STEP | and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors of wheat as provision for his royal court, as well as 20,000 baths of pure olive oil.

1 Kings 5:11

11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors ^{▼▼ As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.} of wheat as provision for his royal court, ^{▼▼ Heb “his house.”} as well as 20,000 baths ^{▼▼ The Hebrew text has “twenty cors,” but the ancient Greek version and the parallel text in 2 Chr 2:10 read “twenty thousand baths.”} ^{▼▼ A bath was a liquid measure equivalent to almost six gallons.} of pure ^{▼▼ Or “pressed.”} olive oil. ^{▼▼ Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”}