2 Chronicles 2:8-10

8 “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

9 to provide me with plenty of lumber, because the temple I build must be large and magnificent.

10 I will give your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors^[b] of ground wheat, twenty thousand cors^[c] of barley, twenty thousand baths^[d] of wine and twenty thousand baths of olive oil.”

2 Chronicles 2:8-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 2

Solomon intending to build a temple for God, and a palace for himself, sent to Hiram, king of Tyre, to furnish him with materials and workmen, 2Ch 2:1-10, to which Hiram returned an agreeable answer, 2Ch 2:11-16, and for this service Solomon numbered all the strangers in Israel, 2Ch 2:17,18.

Cross References

• 1. Ezra 3:7

Footnotes

• [a] Probably a variant of "almug"
• [b] That is, probably about 3,600 tons or about 3,200 metric tons of wheat
• [c] That is, probably about 3,000 tons or about 2,700 metric tons of barley
• [d] That is, about 120,000 gallons or about 440,000 liters