1 Reyes 5:11

11 Y Salomón daba a Hiram veinte mil coros de trigo para el sustento de su familia, y veinte mil coros de aceite limpio; esto daba Salomón a Hiram cada año

1 Reyes 5:11 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 5:11

And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat [for]
food to his household
This measure was the Hebrew measure "cor", or "corus", and, according to Bishop Cumberland ^F5, its contents were 17,477 solid inches; it was equal to ten ephahs, each of which held two gallons and an half, and the cor held seventy five wine gallons five pints, and somewhat more; according to some ^F6, what it held was equal to six hundred forty eight Roman pounds; so that twenty thousand of them contained 12,960,000 pounds of wheat:

and twenty measures of pure oil;
squeezed out of the olives without breaking them; the same kind of measure is here expressed as before, and the quantity answered to 12,960 Roman pounds; another writer ^F7 reckons a cor to contain 1080 Roman pounds; so that Hiram had every year 21,600 pounds of oil. In ( 2 Chronicles 2:10 ) , it is twenty thousand baths of oil now not to take notice that the measures are different, a bath was but the tenth part of a cor, reference is had to different things; here the writer relates what was given to Hiram for his own family, there what was given to the workmen, where several other things are mentioned besides these:

thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year:
so long as the building lasted, and the workmen were employed; but Abarbinel thinks that he gave it to him as long as he lived, out of his great munificence and liberality.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 Scripture Weights and Measures, c. 3. p. 86.
F6 Vid. Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. p. 517.
F7 Van Till in Cantic. Mosis, p. 54.

1 Reyes 5:11 In-Context

9 Mis siervos la llevarán desde el Líbano al mar; y yo la pondré en balsas por el mar hasta el lugar que tú me señalares, y allí se desatará, y tú la tomarás; y tú también harás mi voluntad, en dar de comer a mi familia

10 Dio pues Hiram a Salomón madera de cedro, y madera de haya toda la que quiso

11 Y Salomón daba a Hiram veinte mil coros de trigo para el sustento de su familia, y veinte mil coros de aceite limpio; esto daba Salomón a Hiram cada año

12 Dio, pues, el SEÑOR a Salomón sabiduría como le había dicho; y hubo paz entre Hiram y Salomón, e hicieron pacto entre ambos

13 Y el rey Salomón impuso tributo a todo Israel, y el tributo fue de treinta mil hombres