2 Tawarikh 2:8

2:8 Send me cedars, evergreens, and algum ¹  trees from Lebanon, for I know your servants are adept ²  at cutting down trees in Lebanon. My servants will work with your servants

2 Tawarikh 16:3

16:3 “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. ³  See, I have sent you silver and gold. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.” ⁴ 

[2:8]  ¹ 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.

[2:8]  ² tn Heb “know.”

[16:3]  ³ tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”

[16:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”