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 Huram[¹] my father’s,