1 Raja-raja 5:11
Konteks5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors 1 of wheat as provision for his royal court, 2 as well as 20,000 baths 3 of pure 4 olive oil. 5
1 Raja-raja 7:6
Konteks7:6 He made a colonnade 6 75 feet 7 long and 45 feet 8 wide. There was a porch in front of this and pillars and a roof in front of the porch. 9
[5:11] 1 sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.
[5:11] 3 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] 5 tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”
[7:6] 6 tn Heb “a porch of pillars.”
[7:6] 7 tn Heb “fifty cubits.”
[7:6] 8 tn Heb “thirty cubits.”
[7:6] 9 tn Heb “and a porch was in front of them (i.e., the aforementioned pillars) and pillars and a roof in front of them (i.e., the aforementioned pillars and porch).” The precise meaning of the term translated “roof” is uncertain; it occurs only here and in Ezek 41:25-26.