2 Chronicles 2:15-17

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¹⁵ “Now, sir, you offered to give us wheat, barley, oil, and wine. Give them to my servants, ¹⁶ and we will cut as much wood as you need from Lebanon. We will tie the logs together and float them by sea to the town of Joppa. Then you can carry the wood to Jerusalem.”

¹⁷ So Solomon counted all the foreigners living in Israel. (This was after the time when his father David counted the people.) They found 153,600 strangers in the country.