1 Kings 5:11-12

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  5:12 So the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he had promised him. And Hiram and Solomon were at peace and made a treaty. ⁶ 

[5:11]  ¹ sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

[5:11]  ² tn Heb “his house.”

[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]  ⁴ tn Or “pressed.”

[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.”

[5:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “a covenant,” referring to a formal peace treaty or alliance.