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2 Chronicles 2:10

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2:10 Look, I will pay your servants who cut the timber 20,000 kors 1  of ground wheat, 20,000 kors of barley, 120,000 gallons 2  of wine, and 120,000 gallons of olive oil.”

2 Chronicles 4:5

Context
4:5 It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons. 3 
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[2:10]  1 sn As a unit of dry measure a kor was roughly equivalent to six bushels (about 220 liters).

[2:10]  2 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).

[4:5]  3 tn Heb “3,000 baths” (note that the capacity is given in 1 Kings 7:26 as “2,000 baths”). A bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons (about 22 liters), so 3,000 baths was a quantity of about 18,000 gallons (66,000 liters).



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