1 Kings 5:11 BSB — MannaFest

1 Kings 5:11

and year after year Solomon would provide Hiram with 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, as well as 20,000 baths of pure olive oil.

BSB

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ASV

And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.

KJV

And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.

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Commentary

4 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The number of measures of wheat was considerably less than Solomon’s own annual consumption, which exceeded 32,000 cors 1Ki 4:22; but the small amount of twenty cors of oil, which seems at first sight scarcely to match with the 20,000 cors of wheat, will not appear improbable, if we consider that the oil was to be” pure” - literally “beaten” - i. e., oil extracted from the olives by pounding, and not by means of the press. Year by year - i. e., during all the years that Solomon was engaged in building and was helped by Hiram.

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The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Measures - Hebrew. twenty cors pure oil; but in 2Chr ii, 10, it is twenty thousand baths of oil. To which there is added twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It is here said of Hiram their king that he was ever a lover of David; and we have reason to think he was a worshipper of the true God, and had himself renounced, though he could not reform, the idolatry of his city.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּשְׁלֹמֹה֩	u.she.lo.Moh	and Solomon	H8010 →
נָתַ֨ן	na.Tan	he gave	H5414 →
לְחִירָ֜ם	le.chi.Ram	to Hiram	H2438 →
עֶשְׂרִים֩	'es.Rim	twenty	H6242 →
אֶ֨לֶף	'E.lef	thousand	H505 →
כֹּ֤ר	kor	cor[s] of	H3734 →
חִטִּים֙	chi.Tim	wheat<s>	H2406 →
מַכֹּ֣לֶת	ma.Ko.let	food	H4361 →
לְבֵית֔וֹ	le.vei.To	for household his	H1004 →
וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים	ve.'es.Rim	and twenty	H6242 →
כֹּ֖ר	kor	cor[s] of	H3734 →
שֶׁ֣מֶן	She.men	oil	H8081 →
כָּתִ֑ית	ka.Tit	pressed	H3795 →
כֹּֽה־	koh-	thus	H3541 →
יִתֵּ֧ן	yi.Ten	he gave	H5414 →
שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה	she.lo.Moh	Solomon	H8010 →
לְחִירָ֖ם	le.chi.Ram	to Hiram	H2438 →
שָׁנָ֥ה	sha.Nah	a year	H8141 →
בְשָׁנָֽה׃ פ	ve.sha.Nah	in a year	H8141 →

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Through
2 Chronicles 2:10
I will pay your servants, the woodcutters, 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of olive oil.”
leads to
- Luke 10:7
  Stay at the same house, eating and drinking whatever you are offered. For the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move around from house to house.
- 1 Kings 7:26
  It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.
- 1 Kings 7:38
  He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.
- Ezra 7:22
  up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred cors of wheat, a hundred baths of wine, a hundred baths of olive oil, and salt without limit.
- Romans 13:7–8
  Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

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PersonSolomonDavid's son and the third king of Israel; the temple-builder and wisdom-king, to whom Psalms 72 and 127 are ascribed.

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The walk

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