2 Chronicles 2:10 meaning and explanation

I will pay your servants, the woodcutters, 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of olive oil.”

2 Chronicles 2:10, Berean Standard Bible

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Solomon is speaking to Hiram, king of Tyre, negotiating the timber and skilled labour needed for the temple in Jerusalem. Having asked for cedar and cypress from Lebanon, he names the wages for Hiram's woodcutters: vast quantities of wheat, barley, wine and olive oil.

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