2 Chronicles 2:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you need, and we will bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa; and you shall carry it up to Jerusalem.

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  • Josh 19:46 : 46 And Mejarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho.
  • 1 Kgs 5:8-9 : 8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things you sent to me for, and I will do all your desire concerning cedar and fir timber. 9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; I will convey them by sea in floats to the place you appoint, and will have them unloaded there, and you shall receive them, and you shall fulfill my desire by providing food for my household.
  • Ezra 3:7 : 7 They gave money also to the masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, to those of Zidon, and to those of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant they had from Cyrus king of Persia.
  • John 1:3 : 3 All things were made through him, and without him nothing was made that was made.
  • Acts 9:36 : 36 Now there was in Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and charitable deeds which she did.
  • Acts 10:32 : 32 Send therefore to Joppa, and call here Simon, whose surname is Peter; he is staying in the house of one Simon a tanner by the seaside: when he comes, he will speak to you.

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  • 2 Chr 2:7-10
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    7Send me now therefore a man skillful to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave with the skillful men that are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.

    8Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon, for I know that your servants are skillful to cut timber in Lebanon; and behold, my servants shall be with your servants,

    9To prepare me timber in abundance, for the house which I am about to build shall be exceedingly great.

    10And behold, I will give to your servants, the woodcutters who cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

  • 1 Kgs 5:8-11
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    8And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things you sent to me for, and I will do all your desire concerning cedar and fir timber.

    9My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; I will convey them by sea in floats to the place you appoint, and will have them unloaded there, and you shall receive them, and you shall fulfill my desire by providing food for my household.

    10So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire.

    11And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food for his household, and twenty measures of pure oil; this was given by Solomon to Hiram year by year.

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    14The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to engrave any manner of engraving, and to devise every design that shall be put to him, with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.

    15Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants:

  • 6Now therefore command that they cut me cedar trees from Lebanon, and my servants will be with your servants, and I will give you hire for your servants according to all that you designate, for you know that there is none among us who can skillfully cut timber like the Sidonians.

  • 4Also cedar trees in abundance, for the Sidonians and those of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David.

  • 2 Chr 2:1-3
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    1And Solomon resolved to build a house for the name of the LORD, and a house for his kingdom.

    2And Solomon selected seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand to cut stone in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.

    3And Solomon sent to Huram, the king of Tyre, saying, As you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build a house to dwell in, so deal with me.

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    11Moreover the navy of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir a great supply of almug wood, and precious stones.

    12And the king made of the almug wood pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, also harps and lyres for singers: no such almug wood came, nor was seen, until this day.

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    15And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plentiful as stones, and cedar trees he made as the sycamore trees that are in the valley for abundance.

    16And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

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    27And Hiram sent his servants, seamen who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

    28And they came to Ophir, and brought from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

  • 9King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.

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    14Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD one hundred thousand talents of gold, and a million talents of silver; and of bronze and iron beyond weight, for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and you may add to them.

    15Moreover there are workmen with you in abundance, stone cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of skillful men for every kind of work.

    16Of the gold, the silver, and the bronze, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with you.

  • 2And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

  • 4So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.

  • 15And Solomon had seventy thousand who carried burdens and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountains,

  • 5They have made all your ship boards of fir trees from Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for you.

  • 27The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars as abundant as sycamores in the low country.

  • 27And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar made he as plentiful as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.

  • 6To carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and cut stone to repair the house.

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    17And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, according to the census in which David his father had numbered them; and they were found to be one hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.

    18And he appointed seventy thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand to be stonecutters in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred overseers to direct the people in their work.

  • 18And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the stonecutters quarried them; so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

  • 13And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre.

  • 1Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar timber, masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.

  • 18And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that knew the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took from there four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to King Solomon.

  • 10The servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir also brought algum wood and precious stones.

  • 7They gave money also to the masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, to those of Zidon, and to those of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant they had from Cyrus king of Persia.

  • 2And David commanded to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he appointed masons to cut hewn stones to build the house of God.

  • 2Let us go, we pray you, to the Jordan, and take from there each man a beam, and let us make a place there where we may dwell. And he answered, Go.

  • 11Even to the craftsmen and builders they gave it, to buy hewn stone, timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

  • 2He also built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was one hundred cubits, and its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

  • 12Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given to King David a wise son, endowed with prudence and understanding, that might build a house for the LORD, and a house for his kingdom.

  • 11And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.

  • 8And a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which pertain to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.

  • 11(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

  • 12and to masons and stonecutters, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

  • 14besides what the traders and merchants brought. All the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.