John Gill's Exposition on 2 Chronicles 2:10

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, etc.] 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 f4 interprets it; or rather, perhaps, it should be rendered “food” f5 that is, for his household, as in (<110511>1 Kings 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, (<441220>Acts 12:20) (<262717>Ezekiel 27:17), and twenty thousand measures of barley; the measures of both these were the cor, of which (see <110511>1 Kings 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 f6.

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