1 Kings 5:11

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 

Luke 10:7

10:7 Stay ⁶  in that same house, eating and drinking what they give you, ⁷  for the worker deserves his pay. ⁸  Do not move around from house to house.

Romans 13:7-8

13:7 Pay everyone what is owed: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

Exhortation to Love Neighbors

13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

¹ sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

² tn Heb “his house.”

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.”

⁴ tn Or “pressed.”

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.”

⁶ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

⁷ tn Grk “eating and drinking the things from them” (an idiom for what the people in the house provide the guests).

⁸ sn On the phrase the worker deserves his pay see 1 Tim 5:18 and 1 Cor 9:14.