Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that (A)your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. And my servants will be with your servants,

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“Send me also cedar, juniper and algum[a] logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants are skilled in cutting timber there. My servants will work with yours

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  1. 2 Chronicles 2:8 Probably a variant of almug

Now therefore command that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me. And my servants will join your servants, and I will pay you for your servants such wages as you set, for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”

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“So give orders that cedars(A) of Lebanon be cut for me. My men will work with yours, and I will pay you for your men whatever wages you set. You know that we have no one so skilled in felling timber as the Sidonians.”

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10 Moreover, the servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon, (A)who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum wood and precious stones. 11 And the king made from the algum wood (B)supports for the house of the Lord and for the king's house, lyres also and harps for the singers. There never was seen the like of them before in the land of Judah.

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10 (The servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon brought gold from Ophir;(A) they also brought algumwood[a] and precious stones. 11 The king used the algumwood to make steps for the temple of the Lord and for the royal palace, and to make harps and lyres for the musicians. Nothing like them had ever been seen in Judah.)

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  1. 2 Chronicles 9:10 Probably a variant of almugwood

11 Moreover, (A)the fleet of Hiram, which brought (B)gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir a very great amount of almug wood and precious stones.

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11 (Hiram’s ships brought gold from Ophir;(A) and from there they brought great cargoes of almugwood[a] and precious stones.

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  1. 1 Kings 10:11 Probably a variant of algumwood; also in verse 12