¹⁰And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures¹ of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures¹ of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil. ¹ Hebrew _cors_. =10.= _measures_] Hebrew _cors_. A _cor_ was the same as a _homer_ = about 11 bushels. _beaten wheat_] 1 Kings v. 11, _wheat for food_. The text is doubtful, and the phrase _beaten wheat_ occurs nowhere else and is uncertain in meaning. _of barley_] The barley and wine are not mentioned in 1 Kings v. 11; there wheat and oil only are mentioned. _twenty thousand baths of oil_] In 1 Kings v. 11 (Hebrew) _twenty cors of pure oil_. In liquid measure the _bath_ = about 8¼ gallons. As ten _baths_ went to a cor, the amount stated in Chronicles is a hundred times as much as the amount given in 1 Kings. =11‒16= [10‒15, Hebrew] (compare 1 Kings v. 7‒9). HURAM’S ANSWER TO SOLOMON. Like the preceding verses 3‒10, these verses show considerable variations from the parallel in Kings. ¹¹Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the LORD loveth his people, he hath made thee king over them. ¹²Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with discretion and understanding, that should build an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom. =12.= The sequence is greatly improved if this verse is read before verse 11. Probably the transposition should be made. _God of Israel_] The Chronicler feels no incongruity in making Huram use the language of a worshipper of Jehovah. ¹³And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram¹ my father’s, ¹ Or, _even Huram my father_ See chapter iv. 16. =13.= _I have sent_] According to 1 Kings vii. 13 Solomon himself sent and fetched Hiram the artificer. _of Huram my father’s_] Render either literally as margin, =even Huram my father=, or better, =even Huram my trusted counsellor=. Huram the king calls Huram the artificer _my father_ as a title of honour. Compare iv. 16. ¹⁴the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to devise any device: that there may be _a place_ appointed unto him with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father. ¹⁵Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants: =14.= _of Dan_] in 1 Kings vii. 14, _of Naphtali_. The reading of Chronicles may have arisen from Exodus xxxi. 6 (Oholiab one of the artificers of the _tabernacle_ was of the tribe _of Dan_).