Twenty thousand measures of wheat. — This agrees well enough with the calculation in 1 Kings 4:22 of ninety measures a day — something over 32,000 a year — for Solomon’s Court, presumably greater than that of Hiram. But the “twenty measures of oil “ — even of the pure refined oil — is so insignificant in comparison, that it seems best to adopt the Greek reading here (agreeing with 2 Chronicles 2:10, and with Josephus) of 20,000 baths, or 2,000 cors, of oil.
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1 Kings 5:11
11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measuresf of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.