Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that (A)your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. And my servants will be with your servants, to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the house I am to build will be great and wonderful. 10 (B)I will give for your servants, the woodsmen who cut timber, 20,000 cors[a] of crushed wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths[b] of wine, and 20,000 baths of oil.”

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  1. 2 Chronicles 2:10 A cor was about 6 bushels or 220 liters
  2. 2 Chronicles 2:10 A bath was about 6 gallons or 22 liters

“Send me also cedar, juniper and algum[a] logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants are skilled in cutting timber there. My servants will work with yours to provide me with plenty of lumber, because the temple I build must be large and magnificent. 10 I will give your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors[b] of ground wheat, twenty thousand cors[c] of barley, twenty thousand baths[d] of wine and twenty thousand baths of olive oil.(A)

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  1. 2 Chronicles 2:8 Probably a variant of almug
  2. 2 Chronicles 2:10 That is, probably about 3,600 tons or about 3,200 metric tons of wheat
  3. 2 Chronicles 2:10 That is, probably about 3,000 tons or about 2,700 metric tons of barley
  4. 2 Chronicles 2:10 That is, about 120,000 gallons or about 440,000 liters