1 Raja-raja 5:11-18

5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors ¹  of wheat as provision for his royal court, ²  as well as 20,000 baths ³  of pure ⁴  olive oil. ⁵  5:12 So the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he had promised him. And Hiram and Solomon were at peace and made a treaty. ⁶ 

5:13 King Solomon conscripted ⁷  work crews ⁸  from throughout Israel, 30,000 men in all. 5:14 He sent them to Lebanon in shifts of 10,000 men per month. They worked in Lebanon for one month, and then spent two months at home. Adoniram was supervisor of ⁹  the work crews. 5:15 Solomon also had 70,000 common laborers ¹⁰  and 80,000 stonecutters ¹¹  in the hills, 5:16 besides 3,300 ¹²  officials who supervised the workers. ¹³  5:17 By royal order ¹⁴  they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple’s foundation with chiseled stone. 5:18 Solomon’s and Hiram’s construction workers, ¹⁵  along with men from Byblos, ¹⁶  did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple. ¹⁷ 

[5:11]  ¹ sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

[5:11]  ² tn Heb “his house.”

[5:11]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tn Or “pressed.”

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

[5:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “a covenant,” referring to a formal peace treaty or alliance.

[5:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “raised up.”

[5:13]  ⁸ sn Work crews. This Hebrew word (מַס, mas) refers to a group of laborers conscripted for royal or public service.

[5:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “was over.”

[5:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “carriers of loads.”

[5:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “cutters” (probably of stones).

[5:16]  ¹² tc Some Greek mss of the OT read “3,600”; cf. 2 Chr 2:2, 18 and NLT.

[5:16]  ¹³ tn Heb “besides thirty-three hundred from the officials of Solomon’s governors who were over the work, the ones ruling over the people, the ones doing the work.”

[5:17]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and the king commanded.”

[5:18]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “builders.”

[5:18]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the Gebalites.” The reading is problematic and some emend to a verb form meaning, “set the borders.”

[5:18]  ¹⁷ tc The LXX includes the words “for three years.”