22 Solomon’s [a]provision for one day was [b]thirty kors of fine flour and [c]sixty kors of meal, 23 ten fat oxen, twenty [d]pasture-fed oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened geese.

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  1. 1 Kings 4:22 Lit bread
  2. 1 Kings 4:22 About 231 cubic feet or 6.5 cubic meters
  3. 1 Kings 4:22 About 462 cubic feet or 13 cubic meters
  4. 1 Kings 4:23 Lit oxen of the pasture

22 Solomon’s daily provisions(A) were thirty cors[a] of the finest flour and sixty cors[b] of meal, 23 ten head of stall-fed cattle, twenty of pasture-fed cattle and a hundred sheep and goats, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks and choice fowl.(B)

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  1. 1 Kings 4:22 That is, probably about 5 1/2 tons or about 5 metric tons
  2. 1 Kings 4:22 That is, probably about 11 tons or about 10 metric tons