And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
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Gill's Exposition
Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon,.... In which letter he told him he had considered the contents of his, and would grant him all that he desired, see Kg1 5:8.…
Barnes' Notes
Beaten wheat - The Hebrew text is probably corrupt here. The true original may be restored from marginal reference, where the wheat is said to have been given “for food.” The barley and the wine are…
Solomon's wisdom was given him, not merely for speculation, to entertain himself (though it is indeed a princely entertainment), nor merely for conversation, to entertain his friends, but for action;…
Cambridge Bible
measures Hebrew, cors. A corwas the same as a homer= 393.9 litres.
beaten wheat 1Ki 5:11, wheat for food. The text is doubtful, and the phrase beaten wheatoccurs nowhere else and is uncertain in…
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