1 Raja-raja 4:27

4:27 The district governors acquired supplies for King Solomon and all who ate in his royal palace. ¹  Each was responsible for one month in the year; they made sure nothing was lacking.

1 Raja-raja 5:8

5:8 Hiram then sent this message to Solomon: “I received ²  the message you sent to me. I will give you all the cedars and evergreens you need. ³ 

1 Raja-raja 5:11-12

5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors ⁴  of wheat as provision for his royal court, ⁵  as well as 20,000 baths ⁶  of pure ⁷  olive oil. ⁸  5:12 So the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he had promised him. And Hiram and Solomon were at peace and made a treaty. ⁹ 

[4:27]  ¹ tn Heb “everyone who drew near to the table of King Solomon.”

[5:8]  ² tn Heb “heard.”

[5:8]  ³ tn Heb “I will satisfy all your desire with respect to cedar wood and with respect to the wood of evergreens.”

[5:11]  ⁴ sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

[5:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “his house.”

[5:11]  ⁶ 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]  sn A bath was a liquid measure equivalent to almost six gallons.

[5:11]  ⁷ tn Or “pressed.”

[5:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”

[5:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “a covenant,” referring to a formal peace treaty or alliance.