2 Chronicles 2:8
in 2 Chronicles 2Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants have skill to cut timber there. And indeed, my servants will work with yours
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Send me also cedar-trees, fir-trees, and algum-trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that thy servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. And, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,
KJV
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,
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 2
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Send me . . . cedar trees, &c.--The cedar and cypress were valued as being both rare and durable; the algum or almug trees (likewise a foreign wood), though not found on Lebanon, are mentioned as being procured through Huram (see on 1Ki 10:11).
This site's exposition
Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold
on 2 Chronicles 2:7-10
Solomon asks for one man skilled in gold, silver, brass, iron, purple, crimson and blue, and able to grave, set alongside the craftsmen David had already provided in Judah and Jerusalem, named again at 1 Chr 22:15. The timber order for cedar, fir and algum trees is paid in kind, wheat, barley, wine and oil for the hewers, a wage list fuller than Kings' parallel account, which gives wheat and oil alone. Solomon's own word for the scale of the work, wonderful great in v9, sets the measure the Chronicler holds through the rest of the building chapters.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
); for the house must be wonderfully great, that is, very stately and magnificent, no cost must be spared, nor any contrivance wanting in it. Here is Solomon's engagement to maintain the workmen (
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Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon,.... Of the two first of these, and which Hiram sent, see 1Ki 5:
The words behind it
20 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּֽשְׁלַֽח־ | ushelach- | and send | H7971 → | 845 times |
| לִי֩ | li | to me | ||
| עֲצֵ֨י | ʾatzei | wood<s> of | H6086 → | 328 times |
| אֲרָזִ֜ים | ʾarazim | cedar<s> | H730 → | 73 times |
| בְּרוֹשִׁ֣ים | beroshim | fir<s> | H1265 → | |
| וְאַלְגּוּמִּים֮ | vealgumim | and algum<s> | H418 → | 3 times |
| מֵֽהַלְּבָנוֹן֒ | mehalevanon | from <the> Lebanon | H3844 → | 71 times |
| כִּ֚י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| אֲנִ֣י | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| יָדַ֔עְתִּי | yada'ti | I know | H3045 → | 945 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֤ר | ʾasher | that | H834 → | 5497 times |
| עֲבָדֶ֙יךָ֙ | ʾavadeikha | servants your | H5650 → | 799 times |
| יֽוֹדְעִ֔ים | yodim | [are] knowing | H3045 → | 945 times |
| לִכְר֖וֹת | likhrot | to cut | H3772 → | 288 times |
| עֲצֵ֣י | ʾatzei | [the] wood<s> of | H6086 → | 328 times |
| לְבָנ֑וֹן | levanon | Lebanon | H3844 → | 71 times |
| וְהִנֵּ֥ה | vehineh | and there! | H2009 → | 843 times |
| עֲבָדַ֖י | ʾavadai | servants my | H5650 → | 799 times |
| עִם־ | ʾim- | [will be] with | H5973 → | 1050 times |
| עֲבָדֶֽיךָ׃ | ʾavadeikha | servants your | H5650 → | 799 times |
וּֽשְׁלַֽח־and send
ushelach-H7971 →845 times
לִי֩to me
li
עֲצֵ֨יwood<s> of
ʾatzeiH6086 →328 times
אֲרָזִ֜יםcedar<s>
ʾarazimH730 →73 times
בְּרוֹשִׁ֣יםfir<s>
beroshimH1265 →
וְאַלְגּוּמִּים֮and algum<s>
vealgumimH418 →3 times
מֵֽהַלְּבָנוֹן֒from <the> Lebanon
mehalevanonH3844 →71 times
כִּ֚יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
אֲנִ֣יI
ʾaniH589 →874 times
יָדַ֔עְתִּיI know
yada'tiH3045 →945 times
אֲשֶׁ֤רthat
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
עֲבָדֶ֙יךָ֙servants your
ʾavadeikhaH5650 →799 times
יֽוֹדְעִ֔ים[are] knowing
yodimH3045 →945 times
לִכְר֖וֹתto cut
likhrotH3772 →288 times
עֲצֵ֣י[the] wood<s> of
ʾatzeiH6086 →328 times
לְבָנ֑וֹןLebanon
levanonH3844 →71 times
וְהִנֵּ֥הand there!
vehinehH2009 →843 times
עֲבָדַ֖יservants my
ʾavadaiH5650 →799 times
עִם־[will be] with
ʾim-H5973 →1050 times
עֲבָדֶֽיךָ׃servants your
ʾavadeikhaH5650 →799 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 Kings 10:11(The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir also brought from Ophir a great cargo of almug wood and precious stones.
it leads to
- 1 Kings 9:27–28
And Hiram sent his servants, men who knew the sea, to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s servants.
- Psalms 45:9
The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir.
- 2 Chronicles 8:18
So Hiram sent him ships captained by his servants, along with crews of experienced sailors. They went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir and acquired from there 450 talents of gold, which they delivered to…
- 1 Kings 9:27–28
Through
1 Kings 5:6Now therefore, order that cedars of Lebanon be cut down for me. My servants will be with your servants, and I will pay your servants whatever wages you set, for you know that there…
it leads to
- Philippians 4:8
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think on these things.
- Ezra 3:7
They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by…
- Ephesians 4:7
Now to each one of us grace has been given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
- Psalms 29:5
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.
- 1 Kings 6:20
The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
- Philippians 4:8
About 2 Chronicles
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.