2 Chronicles 2:10

2:10 Look, I will pay your servants who cut the timber 20,000 kors of ground wheat, 20,000 kors of barley, 120,000 gallons of wine, and 120,000 gallons of olive oil.”

2 Chronicles 22:6

22:6 Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. Ahaziah son of King Jehoram of Judah went down to visit Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he had been wounded.

2 Chronicles 28:5

28:5 The Lord his God handed him over to the king of Syria. The Syrians defeated him and deported many captives to Damascus. He was also handed over to the king of Israel, who thoroughly defeated him.


sn As a unit of dry measure a kor was roughly equivalent to six bushels (about 220 liters).

tn Heb “20,000 baths” (also a second time later in this verse). A bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons (about 22 liters), so this was a quantity of about 120,000 gallons (440,000 liters).

tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”

tc Most Hebrew mss read “Azariah.” A few Hebrew mss, the LXX, Vulgate, and Syriac read “Ahaziah” (cf. 2 Kgs 8:29).

tn Heb “because he was sick,” presumably referring to the wounds he received in the battle with the Syrians.

tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Syrians) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

tn Heb “and took captive from him a great captivity and brought [them] to Damascus.”

tn Heb “who struck him down with a great striking.”