1 Kings 5:11

And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures [Heb. cots. See 1 Kings 4:22 ] of wheat for food [ מכלת for מאכלת ] to his household [Rawlinson remarks that this was much less than Solomon's own consumption ( 1 Kings 4:22 ). But he did not undertake to feed Hiram's entire court, but merely to make an adequate return for the timber and labour he received. And the consumption of fine flour in Solomon's household was only about 11,000 cors per annum ] and twenty measures of pure oil [lit; beaten oil, i.e; such as was obtained by pounding the olives, when not quite ripe, in a mortar. This was both of whiter colour and purer flavour, and also gave a clearer light, than that furnished by the ripe olives in the press. See the authorities quoted in Bähr's Symbolik, 1. p. 419]: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year [probably so long as the building lasted or timber was furnished. But the agreement may have been for a still longer period.]