Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 5:11

11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat, for food to his houshold, and twenty measures of pure oil : thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year .

Heb. Twenty Cors of pure oil; but in 2 Chron. 2. 10. it is twenty thousand baths of oil▪ To which is there added 20000 measures of barley, and 20000 baths of wine. Either therefore, First, He speaks of several things, as was now said on v. 9. Or, Secondly, He speaks there of what Solomon offered▪ for it runs thus, I will give; and here of what Hiram accepted; and accordingly Solomon gave, for it is here said Solomon gave Hiram. Or, Thirdly, The Barley, and Wine, and 20000 baths of common oil, mentioned 2 Chron. 2. must be added to the 20000 measures of wheat, and the twenty measures of pure oil here expressed, and the whole sum is to be made up from both places; that Book of Chronicles being written to supply and compleat the Histories of the Books of Samuel, and of the Kings.

Either, First, For sustenance to the Workmen, during the Years wherein they were employed in the cutting down and hewing of the Timber. Or, Secondly, For the Yearly support of the Kings House, during the said time. And these words being left out in [illegible: 1+ letters] Chron. 2. may seem to favour their opinion, that these places speak of divers passages, and several Recompences, the one given to the King's House, the other to the Labourers, although the Argument is not cogent; and this might be omitted there, either because it was sufficiently implied in the nature of the thing, or because it had been plainly expressed here.

Marginal references: Heb. [illegible: 1 word]