Scripture · Old Testament
1 Kings 4:22
1 Kings 4:22 is verse 22 of 1 Kings chapter 4, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,
30 cors is approximately 187 bushels or 6,600 liters (probably about 5.5 tons or 5 metric tons of flour).
60 cors is approximately 375 bushels or 13,200 liters (probably about 11 tons or 10 metric tons of meal).
King James Version
And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
World English Bible
Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, sixty measures of meal,
1 cor is the same as a homer, or about 55.9 U. S. gallons (liquid) or 211 liters or 6 bushels
Read in context
1 Kings 4:20–24 · Berean Standard Bible
20 The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.
21 And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
22 Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,
23 ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry.
24 For Solomon had dominion over everything west of the Euphrates —over all the kingdoms from Tiphsah to Gaza—and he had peace on all sides.
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