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.
Behold, I will give ... beaten wheat, х chiTiym (H2406) makowt (H4347)] - i:e., wheat, the beatings out; wheat stripped of the husk, boiled, and saturated with butter, forms a frequent meal with the labouring people in the East (cf. 1 Kings 5:11). [But Gesenius suggests the text should probably read, chiTiym makolet la`baadekaa, wheat as food for thy servants.] There is no discrepancy between that passage and this. The yearly supplies of wine and oil mentioned in the former were intended for Huram's court, in return for the cedars sent him; while the articles of meat and drink specified here were for the workmen on Lebanon.