2:8 Send me cedars, evergreens, and algum 1 trees from Lebanon, for I know your servants are adept 2 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.
1 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.