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My servants shall bring it down to the sea from Lebanon, and I will make it into rafts to go by sea to the place you direct. And I will have them broken up there, and you shall receive it. And you shall meet my wishes (A)by providing food for my household.”

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My men will haul them down from Lebanon to the Mediterranean Sea(A), and I will float them as rafts by sea to the place you specify. There I will separate them and you can take them away. And you are to grant my wish by providing food(B) for my royal household.”

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11 while Solomon gave Hiram 20,000 cors[a] of wheat as food for his household, and 20,000[b] cors of pressed oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.

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  1. 1 Kings 5:11 A cor was about 6 bushels or 220 litres
  2. 1 Kings 5:11 Septuagint; Hebrew twenty

11 and Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors[a] of wheat as food(A) for his household, in addition to twenty thousand baths[b][c] of pressed olive oil. Solomon continued to do this for Hiram year after year.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 5:11 That is, probably about 3,600 tons or about 3,250 metric tons
  2. 1 Kings 5:11 Septuagint (see also 2 Chron. 2:10); Hebrew twenty cors
  3. 1 Kings 5:11 That is, about 120,000 gallons or about 440,000 liters