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Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message which you have sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning cypress timber.
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Verse 8. Fir-trees. Some take these to be another species of cedars, as they say fir is too slender and corruptible; (Martin, and so forth) and Solomon had not asked for it, verse 6.; though he does in 2 Paral. 2:8, where ( Bible.) the word is translated archeuthina, “juniper-trees,” by the Septuagint and S. Jerom. Calmet.—Beroshim, is rendered fir-trees by Pagnin; box or cedars, and so forth by others. The precise import of the Hebrew names of plants, animals, and so forth is not sufficiently known. Menochius.—Fir is use by the best architects. Virtuvius, ii. 9. Calmet.
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