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2 Chronicles 2:8

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2:8Send me cedars, evergreens, and algum18 trees from Lebanon, for I know your servants are adept19 at cutting down trees in Lebanon. My servants will work with your servants

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Footnotes

  1. 18 This is probably a variant name for almug trees; see 9:10–11 and the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 10:11–12; cf. . One or the other probably arose through metathesis of letters.
  2. 19 Heb “know.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Also, send me cedar, cypress, and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut the trees of Lebanon. Note that my servants will be with your servants

NLTNew Living Translation

“Also send me cedar, cypress, and red sandalwood logs from Lebanon, for I know that your men are without equal at cutting timber in Lebanon. I will send my men to help them.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Send me trees of cedar, cypress, and algum from Lebanon, for I myself know that your servants are knowledgeable in cutting the trees of Lebanon. Now see, my servants will be with your servants

KJV 1900King James Version

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,