John Gill Commentary 2 Chronicles 2:8

"Send me also cedar-trees, fir-trees, and algum-trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that thy servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon: and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants," — 2 Chronicles 2:8 (ASV)

Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of
Lebanon Of the two first of these, and which Hiram sent, see (1 Kings 5:10) . The algum trees are the same with the almug trees, (1 Kings 10:11 1 Kings 10:12) by a transposition of letters; these could not be coral, as some Jewish writers think, which grows in the sea, for these were in Lebanon; nor Brazil, as Kimchi, so called from a place of this name, which at this time was not known; though there were trees of almug afterwards brought from Ophir in India, as appears from the above quoted place, as well as from Arabia;

and it seems, as Beckius

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for I know that your servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon ;
better than his:

and, behold, my servants shall be with your servants ;
to help and assist them in what they can, and to learn of them, see (1 Kings 5:6) .

FOOTNOTES:

1. 
   F3 observes, to be an Arabic word, by the article "al" prefixed to it: