the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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2 Chronicles 2:8
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Send me also: 1 Kings 5:6
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 vite 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 נוץךיםב; and Josephus calls it מץכב נוץךיםב, 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 dekeėsotho, 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. 1 Kings 10:11, almug-trees
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 9:11 - Now Hiram 1 Chronicles 14:1 - and timber Song of Solomon 1:17 - beams Amos 1:9 - brotherly covenant Haggai 1:8 - to Revelation 18:12 - thyine
Cross-References
Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, toward the east; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.
The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.
And the Lord God planted a garden eastwarde in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had shapen.
Then the Lord God planted a garden in the East, in a place named Eden. He put the man he made in that garden.
And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Forsothe the Lord God plauntide at the bigynnyng paradis of likyng, wherynne he settide man whom he hadde formed.
And the LORD God planted a garden Eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon,.... Of the two first of these, and which Hiram sent, see 1 Kings 5:10. The algum trees are the same with the almug trees, 1 Kings 10:11 by a transposition of letters; these could not be coral, as some Jewish writers think, which grows in the sea, for these were in Lebanon; nor Brazil, as Kimchi, so called from a place of this name, which at this time was not known; though there were trees of almug afterwards brought from Ophir in India, as appears from the above quoted place, as well as from Arabia; and it seems, as Beckius c observes, to be an Arabic word, by the article "al" prefixed to it:
for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; better than his:
and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants; to help and assist them in what they can, and to learn of them, see 1 Kings 5:6.
c In Targum in loc.
