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2Ch 2:8 — Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants [shall be] with thy servants,

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Send me also		1Ki 5:6
algum trees		"or, algummim. Called in the parallel passage, by a transposition of letters, almuggim, or ""almug-trees;"" which is rendered by the Vulgate, ligna thyina, the thya or lignum vitć wood. Theophrastus say that ""the thyon of thya tree grows near the temple of Jupiter Ammon (in Africa), and in the Cyrenaica; that it resembles the cypress in its boughs, leaves, stalk, and fruit; and that its wood (from its close texture) never rots."" The LXX. render here [peukina;] and Josephus calls it [xyla peukina] torch or pine-trees; but cautions us against supposing that the wood was like what was known in his time by that name; for these ""were to the sight like the wood of the fig-tree, but more white and shining."" The Syriac version has kaiso dekee-sotho, probably cypress wood; and Dr. Shaw supposes it denotes the cypress. Several critics understand it to mean gummy wood; and Celsius queries whether it may not be the sandal-tree, as the Rabbins and Dr. Geddes suppose. 1Ki 10:11; almug-trees"

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Send me also

1Ki 5:6

Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that [there is] not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.

algum trees

1Ki 10:11

And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.

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Scott, Thomas. "2 Chronicles 2:8," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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