John Gill's Exposition on 2 Chronicles 2:8

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon, etc.] Of the two first of these, and which Hiram sent, (see <110510>1 Kings 5:10). The algum trees are the same with the almug trees, (<111011>1 Kings 10:11,12) 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 f3 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 <110506>1 Kings 5:6).

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