1 Kings 4:22

4:22 Each day Solomon’s royal court consumed thirty cors of finely milled flour, sixty cors of cereal,

1 Kings 12:30

12:30 This caused Israel to sin; the people went to Bethel and Dan to worship the calves.


tn Heb “the food of Solomon for each day was.”

tn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

tn Heb “and this thing became a sin.”

tc The MT reads “and the people went before the one to Dan.” It is likely that some words have been accidentally omitted and that the text originally said, “and the people went before the one at Bethel and before the one at Dan.”