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 4:22-23

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 4:27-28

4:27 The district governors acquired supplies for King Solomon and all who ate in his royal palace. ⁴  Each was responsible for one month in the year; they made sure nothing was lacking. 4:28 Each one also brought to the assigned location his quota of barley and straw for the various horses. ⁵ 

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 “everyone who drew near to the table of King Solomon.”

⁵ tn Heb “barley and straw for the horses and the steeds they brought to the place which was there, each according to his measure.”