Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat for food to his household, and twenty cors of pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 11. Wheat, “ground or beaten.” Hebrew Paral. Bible.—By comparing this passage with Calmet. 4:22, we may see how much the court of Solomon surpassed that of Hiram. The former consumed 90 measures of flour a day; and 20,000 of wheat sufficed for the Tyrian prince’s family a whole year.—Twenty. It is supposed by many commentators that thousand is to be supplied from the former sentence; as there seems otherwise to be no proportion between the wheat and the oil. Piscat. and so forth—The Septuagint Syr. and so forth read 20,000. Calmet.—The Alex. copy has not core, but only beth, ( Bible.) or “bath,” which is a smaller measure, containing 29 pints and something more, ( Calmet.) or seven gallons, four pints, English wine measure; where the core, or chomer, consisted of 75 gallons, five pints. Arbuthnot. Bible.
20,000 cors would be about 120,000 bushels or about 4.2 megaliters of wheat, which would weigh about 3,270 metric tons.
20 cors is about 1,100 gallons or about 4220 liters.