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1 Kings 5:9-11
Evangelical Heritage Version
1 Kings 5:9-11
Evangelical Heritage Version
9 My servants will bring the logs down from Lebanon to the sea, and I will put them into the sea as rafts and float them to the place that you tell me. Then we will dismantle them there, and you can transport them up from there. In exchange, you will provide all the food I desire for my palace.
10 So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar and fir that he desired. 11 In return, Solomon gave Hiram one hundred twenty thousand bushels[a] of wheat as provisions for his palace and one hundred twenty thousand gallons[b] of beaten[c] olive oil. Solomon gave this amount to Hiram every year.
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- 1 Kings 5:11 Literally twenty thousand cors. The values of the ancient measures of volume are uncertain.
- 1 Kings 5:11 Literally twenty thousand baths
- 1 Kings 5:11 It is assumed that oil from beaten olives is the highest grade olive oil from the first crushing of the olives, which was done by hand, not by a mechanical press.
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