1 Kings 4:22

4:22 Each day Solomon’s royal court consumed ¹  thirty cors ²  of finely milled flour, sixty cors of cereal,

1 Kings 5:11

5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors ³  of wheat as provision for his royal court, ⁴  as well as 20,000 baths ⁵  of pure ⁶  olive oil. ⁷ 

[4:22]  ¹ tn Heb “the food of Solomon for each day was.”

[4:22]  ² tn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

[5:11]  ³ sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

[5:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “his house.”

[5:11]  ⁵ 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.”

[5:11]  ⁶ tn Or “pressed.”

[5:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”