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.
Ver. 10. And, behold, I will give to thy servants.] And shall not Christ's servants and ministers have due maintenance? That which is given to them is given to Christ; as that which is here promised to Hiram's servants, is promised to Hiram's self, 1 Kings 5:6 ; 1Ki 5:11 who, if he did not like it, is promised more. 1Ki 5:6 The difference of the food and measures given by Solomon here, over and above that in 1 Kings 5:11, may stand in this, that the former was for king Hiram's court and household: and this here, for his workmen in Lebanon.