1 Kings 5
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1 Kings 5:11

11and yearH8141 after yearH8141 SolomonH8010 would provideH5414 HiramH2438 with 20,000H6242H505 corsH3734 of wheatH24061 as foodH4361 for his householdH1004, as well as 20,000H6242 baths of pure olive oilH8081H3795.2

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  1. 1. 1 Kings 5:11 20,000 cors is approximately 124,800 bushels or 4.4 million liters (probably about 3,800 tons or 3,400 metric tons of wheat). ↩
  2. 2. 1 Kings 5:11 LXX (see also 2 Chronicles 2:10); 20,000 baths is approximately 116,000 gallons or 440,000 liters of olive oil; Hebrew twenty cors of pure oil or twenty cors of pressed oil ↩

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