My servants shall bring it down to the sea from Lebanon, and I will make it into rafts to go by sea to the place you direct. And I will have them broken up there, and you shall receive it. And you shall meet my wishes (A)by providing food for my household.” 10 So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the timber of cedar and cypress that he desired, 11 while Solomon gave Hiram 20,000 cors[a] of wheat as food for his household, and 20,000[b] cors of beaten oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 5:11 A cor was about 6 bushels or 220 liters
  2. 1 Kings 5:11 Septuagint; Hebrew twenty

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