measures Hebrew, cors. A corwas the same as a homer= 393.9 litres.

beaten wheat 1 Kings 5:11, wheat for food. The text is doubtful, and the phrase beaten wheatoccurs nowhere else and is uncertain in meaning.

of barley The barley and wine are not mentioned in 1 Kings 5:11; there wheat and oil only are mentioned.

twenty thousand baths of oil in 1 Kings 5:11 (Heb.) twenty cors of pure oil. As ten bathswent to a cor, the amount stated in Chron. is a hundred times as much as the amount given in 1 Kings (7878 litres).

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