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1 Kings 4:22-24
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1 Kings 4:22-24
New English Translation
22 Each day Solomon’s royal court consumed[a] thirty cors[b] of finely milled flour, sixty cors of cereal, 23 ten calves fattened in the stall,[c] 20 calves from the pasture, and 100 sheep, not to mention rams, gazelles, deer, and well-fed birds. 24 His royal court was so large because[d] he ruled over all the kingdoms west of the Euphrates River from Tiphsah[e] to Gaza; he was at peace with all his neighbors.[f]
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- 1 Kings 4:22 tn Heb “the food of Solomon for each day was.”
- 1 Kings 4:22 tn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.
- 1 Kings 4:23 tn The words “in the stall” are added for clarification; note the immediately following reference to cattle from the pasture.
- 1 Kings 4:24 tn Heb “because.” The words “his royal court was so large” are added to facilitate the logical connection with the preceding verse.
- 1 Kings 4:24 sn Tiphsah. This was located on the Euphrates River.
- 1 Kings 4:24 tn Heb “for he was ruling over all [the region] beyond the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kingdoms beyond the River, and he had peace on every side all around.”
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