ContradictionsReading order 500Bible context 2 min read
What was Solomon's payment to Hiram?
The provisions differ in quantities and goods, but one passage concerns Hiram's household and the other his workers.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Minor
- A local detail in a story, chronology, or inventory.
Annual household provisions and workers' rations concern different recipients, and the oil quantities use different units.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Hiram's household receives annual wheat and twenty measures of oil
And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
1 Kings 5:11
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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Timber cutters are offered grain and twenty thousand baths each of wine and oil
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