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2 Chronicles 2:8-10
New English Translation
2 Chronicles 2:8-10
New English Translation
8 Send me cedars, evergreens, and algum[a] trees from Lebanon, for I know your servants are adept[b] at cutting down trees in Lebanon. My servants will work with your servants 9 to supply me with large quantities of timber, for I am building a great, magnificent temple. 10 Look, I will pay your servants who cut the timber 20,000 cors[c] of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 120,000 gallons[d] of wine, and 120,000 gallons of olive oil.”
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- 2 Chronicles 2:8 tn This is probably a variant name for almug trees; see 9:10-11 and the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 10:11-12; cf. NLT. One or the other probably arose through metathesis of letters.
- 2 Chronicles 2:8 tn Heb “know.”
- 2 Chronicles 2:10 sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels (about 220 liters).
- 2 Chronicles 2:10 tn Heb “20,000 baths” (also a second time later in this verse). A bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons (about 22 liters), so this was a quantity of about 120,000 gallons (440,000 liters).
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