Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 2:10
And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
10. measures ] Hebrew, cors. A cor was the same as a homer = 393.9 litres.
beaten wheat ] 1Ki 5:11, 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 1Ki 5:11; there wheat and oil only are mentioned.
twenty thousand baths of oil ] in 1Ki 5:11 (Heb.) twenty cors of pure oil. As ten baths went to a cor, the amount stated in Chron. is a hundred times as much as the amount given in 1 Kings (7878 litres).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Beaten wheat – The Hebrew text is probably corrupt here. The true original may be restored from marginal reference, where the wheat is said to have been given for food.
The barley and the wine are omitted in Kings. The author of Chronicles probably filled out the statement which the writer of Kings has given in brief; the barley, wine, and ordinary oil, would be applied to the sustenance of the foreign laborers.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
10. behold, I will give to thyservants . . . beaten wheatWheat, stripped of the husk,boiled, and saturated with butter, forms a frequent meal with thelaboring people in the East (compare 1Ki5:11). There is no discrepancy between that passage and this. Theyearly supplies of wine and oil, mentioned in the former, wereintended for Huram’s court in return for the cedars sent him; whilethe articles of meat and drink specified here were for the workmen onLebanon.
2Ch2:11-18. HURAM’S KINDANSWER.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat,…. Meaning, not what was beaten out of the husk with the flail, as some; nor bruised or half broke for pottage, as others; but ground into flour, as R. Jonah d interprets it; or rather, perhaps, it should be rendered “food” e that is, for his household, as in 1Ki 5:11, and the hire of these servants is proposed to be given in this way, because wheat was scarce with the Tyrians, and they were obliged to have it from the Jews, Ac 12:20,
and twenty thousand measures of barley; the measures of both these were the cor, of which see 1Ki 5:11,
and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil; which measure was the tenth part of a “cor”. According to the Ethiopians, a man might consume four of these measures in the space of a month f.
d Apud Kimchium in loc. e So Kimchi, “pro” “ineuria librariorum”, Schindler, Lex. Pentaglott. col. 73. f Ludolf. Lexic. Ethiop. p. 197.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(10) And, behold, I will give . . . barley.Rather, And, behold, for the hewers, that is, for the woodcutters, I will give wheat as food for thy servants, viz., twenty thousand kors, and barley twenty thousand kors, &c. For the hewers may mean as for the hewers, or perhaps on account of the hewers (Gen. 4:23). The latter sense would bring the verse into substantial harmony with 1Ki. 5:11, where we read: And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand kors of wheat as food for his household, and twenty kors (LXX., 20,000 baths) of pure o: so used Solomon to give to Hiram year by year, i.e., during his building operations.
Beaten wheat.The Hebrew (hittm makkth) is literally wheatstrokes. But it is obvious that makkth is a misreading for makkleth, food, the word used in 1Ki. 5:11; and so the LXX. renders. The expression thy servants here seems to correspond with the phrase his household there; and the drift of the whole passage is that, in return for the services of the Tyrian artificers, Solomon engages to supply Hirams royal household with provisions of corn and wine and oil.
Others assume, without much likelihood, that the two passages relate to two distinct agreements, by one of which Solomon undertook to supply Hirams court, and by the other his Tyrian workmen, with provisions.
Hewers (htbm).An old word, not recurring in the chronicle, and therefore explained by the writer.
Measures (krm).The kor was a dry measure = one quarter. (Syriac, rebe, quarters.) The bath, a liquid measure, of six or seven gallons capacity. Both words occur in the Greek of Luk. 16:6-7.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
2Ch 2:10 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
Ver. 10. And, behold, I will give to thy servants. ] And shall not Christ’s servants and ministers have due maintenance? That which is given to them is given to Christ; as that which is here promised to Hiram’s servants, is promised to Hiram’s self, 1Ki 5:6 ; 1Ki 5:11 who, if he did not like it, is promised more. 1Ki 5:6 The difference of the food and measures given by Solomon here, over and above that in 1Ki 5:11 , may stand in this, that the former was for king Hiram’s court and household: and this here, for his workmen in Lebanon.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
I will give to thy servants. No discrepancy here with 1Ki 5:11. There the allowance was for Hiram’s household at Tyre; here for Hiram’s labourers in Lebanon.
beaten wheat: i.e. wheat prepared for food.
baths. See App-51.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
I will give: 1Ki 5:11, Luk 10:7, Rom 13:7, Rom 13:8
baths of wine: 1Ki 7:26, 1Ki 7:38, Ezr 7:22
Reciprocal: Gen 27:28 – plenty Deu 8:8 – barley 1Ki 5:6 – cedar trees 2Ch 2:15 – which my lord 2Ch 34:13 – the bearers Ezr 3:7 – meat Eze 27:17 – wheat Act 12:20 – because
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Ch 2:10. Behold, I will give thy servants twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, &c. Solomon would not feed his workmen with bread and water, but with plenty of provisions, and of the best kind. They that employ labourers ought to take care that they be not only well paid, but well provided for, with sufficient of that which is wholesome and proper for them. Let rich masters do for their poor servants and workmen as they would be done by it the tables were turned.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
2:10 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty {d} thousand baths of oil.
(d) Of “bath” read 1Ki 7:26. It is also called ephah, but an ephah measures dry things as a bath is a measure for liquids.