⁸ 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,

⁶ 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.”

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.

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.