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 6:32
Context6:32 On the two doors made of olive wood he carved 6 cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom, and he plated them with gold. 7 He plated the cherubs and the palm trees with hammered gold. 8
1 Kings 17:12
Context17:12 She said, “As certainly as the Lord your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I’m going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation.” 9
[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.”
[6:32] 6 tn Heb “carved carvings of.”
[6:32] 7 tn Heb “he plated [with] gold” (the precise object is not stated).
[6:32] 8 tn Heb “and he hammered out the gold on the cherubs and the palm trees.”
[17:12] 11 tn Heb “Look, I am gathering two sticks and then I will go and make it for me and my son and we will eat it and we will die.”





