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22 Here are the supplies Solomon required every day.

five and a half tons of the finest flour

11 tons of meal

23 ten oxen that had been fed by hand

20 oxen that had been fed on grasslands

100 sheep and goats

deer, antelopes and roebucks

the finest birds

24 Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms that were west of the Euphrates River. He ruled from Tiphsah all the way to Gaza. And he had peace and rest on every side.

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22 Solomon’s daily provisions(A) were thirty cors[a] of the finest flour and sixty cors[b] of meal, 23 ten head of stall-fed cattle, twenty of pasture-fed cattle and a hundred sheep and goats, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks and choice fowl.(B) 24 For he ruled over all the kingdoms west of the Euphrates River, from Tiphsah(C) to Gaza, and had peace(D) on all sides.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 4:22 That is, probably about 5 1/2 tons or about 5 metric tons
  2. 1 Kings 4:22 That is, probably about 11 tons or about 10 metric tons