2 Chronicles 2:7-13
skilled .............................. skilled craftsmen <02450> [cunning.]
engrave <06605> [to grave. Heb. to grave gravings. whom David.]
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.]
great magnificent <01419 06381> [wonderful great. Heb. great and wonderful.]
pay <05414> [I will give.]
gallons ... wine .... gallons <01324 03196> [baths of wine.]
Lord <03068> [Because.]
Huram <02361> [Huram.]
made ... sky <06213 08064> [that made heaven.]
<03045> [endued, etc. Heb. knowing prudence and understanding.]
temple .......... palace <01004> [an house.]
Huram <02361> [of Huram.]
