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2 Chronicles 2:15-17
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2 Chronicles 2:15-17
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15 Please sir, now send us the wheat, barley, olive oil and wine that you promised. 16 Then we will cut the wood that you need from the trees in Lebanon. We will tie the wood together to make boats. Then we will send them on the sea to Joppa. You can take the wood from there up to Jerusalem.’[a]
Solomon chooses men to build the temple
17 Solomon counted all the foreign men who were living in Israel, as his father David had done. There were 153,600 foreign men.
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- 2:16 Joppa was a town in Israel that was on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Tyre was also a city on the coast, north of Joppa.
2 Chronicles 2:15-17
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2 Chronicles 2:15-17
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15 “Now let my lord send his servants the wheat and barley and the olive oil(A) and wine he promised, 16 and we will cut all the logs from Lebanon that you need and will float them as rafts by sea down to Joppa.(B) You can then take them up to Jerusalem.”
17 Solomon took a census of all the foreigners(C) residing in Israel, after the census(D) his father David had taken; and they were found to be 153,600.
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