1 Kings 4:7

4:7 Solomon had twelve district governors appointed throughout Israel who acquired supplies for the king and his palace. Each was responsible for one month in the year.

1 Kings 4:20

Solomon’s Wealth and Fame

4:20 The people of Judah and Israel were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore; they had plenty to eat and drink and were happy.

1 Kings 4:22-23

4:22 Each day Solomon’s royal court consumed ¹  thirty cors ²  of finely milled flour, sixty cors of cereal, 4:23 ten calves fattened in the stall, ³  twenty calves from the pasture, and a hundred sheep, not to mention rams, gazelles, deer, and well-fed birds.

1 Kings 4:25

4:25 All the people of Judah and Israel had security; everyone from Dan to Beer Sheba enjoyed the produce of their vines and fig trees throughout Solomon’s lifetime. ⁴ 

¹ tn Heb “the food of Solomon for each day was.”

² tn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

³ tn The words “in the stall” are added for clarification; note the immediately following reference to cattle from the pasture.

⁴ tn Heb “Judah and Israel lived securely, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan to Beer Sheba, all the days of Solomon.”