2 Chronicles 2:10

10 `And lo, to hewers, to those cutting the trees, I have given beaten wheat to thy servants, cors twenty thousand, and barley, cors twenty thousand, and wine, baths twenty thousand, and oil, baths twenty thousand.'

2 Chronicles 2:10 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 2:10

Behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut
timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat
Meaning, not what was beaten out of the husk with the flail, as some; nor bruised or half broke for pottage, as others; but ground into flour, as R. Jonah ^F4 interprets it; or rather, perhaps, it should be rendered "food" ^F5 that is, for his household, as in ( 1 Kings 5:11 ) , and the hire of these servants is proposed to be given in this way, because wheat was scarce with the Tyrians, and they were obliged to have it from the Jews, ( Acts 12:20 ) ( Ezekiel 27:17 ) ,

and twenty thousand measures of barley;
the measures of both these were the cor, of which see ( 1 Kings 5:11 ) ,

and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of
oil;
which measure was the tenth part of a "cor". According to the Ethiopians, a man might consume four of these measures in the space of a month ^F6.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 Apud Kimchium in loc.
F5 So Kimchi, (tkm) "pro" (tlkm) "ineuria librariorum", Schindler, Lex. Pentaglott. col. 73.
F6 Ludolf. Lexic. Ethiop. p. 197.

2 Chronicles 2:10 In-Context

8 and send to me cedar-trees, firs, and algums from Lebanon, for I have known that thy servants know to cut down trees of Lebanon, and lo, my servants [are] with thy servants,

9 even to prepare for me trees in abundance, for the house that I am building [is] great and wonderful.

10 `And lo, to hewers, to those cutting the trees, I have given beaten wheat to thy servants, cors twenty thousand, and barley, cors twenty thousand, and wine, baths twenty thousand, and oil, baths twenty thousand.'

11 And Huram king of Tyre saith in writing, and sendeth unto Solomon: `In the love of Jehovah to His people He hath given thee king over them.'

12 And Huram saith, `Blessed [is] Jehovah, God of Israel, who made the heavens and the earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, knowing wisdom and understanding, who doth build a house for Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom.