2 Chronicles 2:3

2:3 Solomon sent a message to King Huram ¹  of Tyre: ²  “Help me ³  as you did my father David, when you sent him cedar logs ⁴  for the construction of his palace. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 2:8-10

2:8 Send me cedars, evergreens, and algum ⁶  trees from Lebanon, for I know your servants are adept ⁷  at cutting down trees in Lebanon. My servants will work with your servants 2:9 to supply me with large quantities of timber, for I am building a great, magnificent temple. 2:10 Look, I will pay your servants who cut the timber 20,000 kors ⁸  of ground wheat, 20,000 kors of barley, 120,000 gallons ⁹  of wine, and 120,000 gallons of olive oil.”

¹ tn Heb “Huram.” Some medieval Hebrew mss, along with the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate spell the name “Hiram,” agreeing with 1 Chr 14:1. “Huram” is a variant spelling referring to the same individual.

² map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

³ tn The words “help me” are supplied in the translation for clarification and stylistic reasons.

⁴ tn Heb “cedars.” The word “logs” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “to build for him a house to live in it.”

⁶ tn This is probably a variant name for almug trees; see 9:10-11 and the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 10:11-12; cf. NLT. One or the other probably arose through metathesis of letters.

⁷ tn Heb “know.”

⁸ sn As a unit of dry measure a kor was roughly equivalent to six bushels (about 220 liters).

⁹ tn Heb “20,000 baths” (also a second time later in this verse). A bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons (about 22 liters), so this was a quantity of about 120,000 gallons (440,000 liters).