1 Kings 4:7
Context4:7 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 5:11
Context5:11 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
1 Kings 6:1
Context6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv 6 (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.
1 Kings 9:25
Context9:25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings 7 on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense along with them before the Lord. He made the temple his official worship place. 8
1 Kings 18:1
Context18:1 Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, 9 “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”


[5:11] 1 sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.
[5:11] 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.”
[5:11] 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.”
[6:1] 1 sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966
[9:25] 1 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”