2 Chronicles 2:1-8

2:1

ordered <0559> [determined.]

honor <08034> [for the name.]

temple .............. palace <01004> [an house.]

2:2

had 70,000 <05608 07657> [told out threescore.]

2:3

Huram <02361> [Huram.]

[Hiram.]

As thou didst.

2:4

build <01129> [build.]

dedicate <06942> [to dedicate.]

burn <06999> [to burn.]

fragrant incense <07004 05561> [sweet incense. Heb. incense of spices. the continual.]

burnt sacrifices <05930> [the burnt.]

festivals <04150> [the solemn feasts.]

2:5

great ....... greater <01419> [great.]

great ..... God ... greater .... gods <0430 01419> [great is our God.]

2:6

can <06113> [But who.]

can <06113> [is able. Heb. hath returned, or obtained strength. who am I then.]

only <0518> [save only.]

2:7

skilled .............................. skilled craftsmen <02450> [cunning.]

engrave <06605> [to grave. Heb. to grave gravings. whom David.]

2:8

Send ... cedars <07971 0730> [Send me also.]

algum <0418> [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 vit‘ 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.

[almug-trees.]