1 Raja-raja 5:10-11

5:10 So Hiram supplied the cedars and evergreens Solomon needed, ¹  5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors ²  of wheat as provision for his royal court, ³  as well as 20,000 baths ⁴  of pure ⁵  olive oil. ⁶ 

[5:10]  ¹ tn Heb “and Hiram gave to Solomon cedar wood and the wood of evergreens, all his desire.”

[5:11]  ² sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

[5:11]  ³ tn Heb “his house.”

[5:11]  ⁴ tc The Hebrew text has “twenty cors,” but the ancient Greek version and the parallel text in 2 Chr 2:10 read “twenty thousand baths.”

[5:11]  sn A bath was a liquid measure equivalent to almost six gallons.

[5:11]  ⁵ tn Or “pressed.”

[5:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”