2 Chronicles 2:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And we will have wood cut from Lebanon, as much as you have need of, and will send it to you on flat boats by sea to Joppa, and from there you may take it up to Jerusalem.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 19:46 : 46 And on the west was ... opposite Joppa.
  • 1 Kgs 5:8-9 : 8 Then Hiram sent to Solomon, saying; The words you sent have been given to me: I will do all your desire in the question of cedar-wood and cypress-wood. 9 My men will take them down from Lebanon to the sea, where I will have them corded together to go by sea to whatever place you say, and I will have them cut up there so that you may take them away; as for payment, it will be enough if you give me food for my people.
  • Ezra 3:7 : 7 And they gave money to the stoneworkers and woodworkers; and meat and drink and oil to the people of Zidon and of Tyre, for the transport of cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, as Cyrus, king of Persia, had given them authority to do.
  • John 1:3 : 3 All things came into existence through him, and without him nothing was.
  • Acts 9:36 : 36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, that is, Dorcas: this woman was given to good works and acts of mercy at all times.
  • Acts 10:32 : 32 Send, then, to Joppa, and get Simon, named Peter, to come to you; he is living in the house of Simon, a leather-worker, by the sea.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 2:7-10
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    82%

    7So now send me an expert worker in gold and silver and brass and iron? in purple and red and blue, and in the cutting of all sorts of ornament, to be with the expert workmen who are here in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom my father David got together.

    8And send me cedar-trees, cypress-trees and sandal-wood from Lebanon, for, to my knowledge, your servants are expert wood-cutters in Lebanon; and my servants will be with yours,

    9To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder.

    10And I will give as food to your servants, the wood-cutters, twenty thousand measures of grain, and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand measures of wine and twenty thousand measures of oil.

  • 1 Kgs 5:8-11
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    8Then Hiram sent to Solomon, saying; The words you sent have been given to me: I will do all your desire in the question of cedar-wood and cypress-wood.

    9My men will take them down from Lebanon to the sea, where I will have them corded together to go by sea to whatever place you say, and I will have them cut up there so that you may take them away; as for payment, it will be enough if you give me food for my people.

    10So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar-wood and cypress-wood he had need of;

    11And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of grain, as food for his people, and twenty measures of clear oil; this he did every year.

  • 2 Chr 2:14-15
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    14The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, whose father was a man of Tyre, an expert worker in gold and silver and brass and iron, in stone and wood, in purple and blue and fair linen and red, trained in the cutting of every sort of ornament and the invention of every sort of design; let him be given a place among your expert workmen and those of my lord, your father David.

    15So now let my lord send to his servants the grain and the oil and the wine as my lord has said;

  • 1 Kgs 5:6
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    6So now, will you have cedar-trees from Lebanon cut down for me, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will give you payment for your servants at whatever rate you say; for it is common knowledge that we have no such wood-cutters among us as the men of Zidon.

  • 1 Chr 22:4
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    4And cedar-trees without number, for the Zidonians and the men of Tyre came with a great amount of cedar-trees for David.

  • 2 Chr 2:1-3
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    1Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as king.

    2And Solomon had seventy thousand men numbered for transport, and eighty thousand for cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers.

    3And Solomon sent to Huram, king of Tyre, saying, As you did for my father David, sending him cedar-trees for the building of his house,

  • 1 Kgs 10:11-12
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    11And the sea-force of Hiram, in addition to gold from Ophir, came back with much sandal-wood and jewels.

    12And from the sandal-wood the king made pillars for the house of the Lord, and for the king's house, and instruments of music for the makers of melody: never has such sandal-wood been seen to this day.

  • 2 Chr 1:15-16
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    15And the king made silver and gold as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedar like the sycamore-trees of the lowland in number.

    16And Solomon's horses came out of Egypt; the king's traders got them from Kue at a price.

  • 1 Kgs 9:27-28
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    27Hiram sent his servants, who were experienced seamen, in the sea-force with Solomon's men.

    28And they came to Ophir, where they got four hundred and twenty talents of gold, and took it back to King Solomon.

  • Song 3:9
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    9King Solomon made himself a bed of the wood of Lebanon.

  • 1 Chr 22:14-16
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    14Now see, poor though I am, I have got ready for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold and a million talents of silver; and a weight of brass and iron greater than may be measured; and wood and stone have I made ready, and you may put more to it.

    15And you have a great number of workmen, cutters and workers of stone and wood, and experts in every sort of work,

    16In gold and silver and brass and iron more than may be numbered. Up! then, and to work; and may the Lord be with you.

  • 1 Kgs 5:2
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    2And Solomon sent back word to Hiram, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 6:4
    73%

    4So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they got to work cutting down trees.

  • 1 Kgs 5:15
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    15Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains;

  • Ezek 27:5
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    5They have made all your boards of fir-trees from Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make the supports for your sails.

  • 2 Chr 9:27
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    27The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.

  • 1 Kgs 10:27
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    27And the king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
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    6To the woodworkers and the builders and the stone-cutters; and for getting wood and cut stones for the building up of the house.

  • 2 Chr 2:17-18
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    17Then Solomon took the number of all the men from strange lands who were living in Israel, as his father David had done; there were a hundred and fifty-three thousand, six hundred.

    18Seventy thousand he put to the work of transport, eighty thousand to cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers to put the people to work.

  • 1 Kgs 5:18
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    18Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.

  • 1 Kgs 7:13
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    13Then King Solomon sent and got Hiram from Tyre.

  • 1 Chr 14:1
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    1And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David with cedar-trees, and stoneworkers and woodworkers for the building of his house.

  • 2 Chr 8:18
    71%

    18And Huram sent him, by his servants, ships and experienced seamen, who went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir and came back with four hundred and fifty talents of gold, which they took to King Solomon.

  • 2 Chr 9:10
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    10And the servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon, in addition to gold from Ophir, came back with sandal-wood and jewels.

  • Ezra 3:7
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    7And they gave money to the stoneworkers and woodworkers; and meat and drink and oil to the people of Zidon and of Tyre, for the transport of cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, as Cyrus, king of Persia, had given them authority to do.

  • 1 Chr 22:2
    71%

    2And David gave orders to get together all the men from strange lands who were in the land of Israel; and he put stone-cutters to work, cutting stones for building the house of God.

  • 2 Kgs 6:2
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    2So let us go to Jordan, and let everyone get to work cutting boards, and we will make a living-place for ourselves there. And he said to them, Go, then.

  • 2 Chr 34:11
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    11Even to the woodworkers and builders to get cut stone and wood for joining the structure together and for making boards for the houses which the kings of Judah had given up to destruction.

  • 1 Kgs 7:2
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    2And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars.

  • 2 Chr 2:12
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    12And Huram said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, maker of heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, full of wisdom and good sense, to be the builder of a house for the Lord and a house for himself as king.

  • 2 Sam 5:11
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    11And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David, with cedar-trees and woodworkers and stoneworkers: and they made David a house.

  • Neh 2:8
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    8And a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's park, so that he may give me wood to make boards for the doors of the tower of the house, and for the wall of the town, and for the house which is to be mine. And the king gave me this, for the hand of my God was on me.

  • 1 Kgs 9:11
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    11(Hiram, king of Tyre, had given Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees and gold, as much as he had need of,) King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.

  • 2 Kgs 12:12
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    12And to the wall-builders and the stone-cutters, and to get wood and cut stone for building up the broken parts of the house of the Lord, and for everything needed to put the house in good order.

  • 2 Chr 9:14
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    14And in addition to what he got from traders of different sorts, all the kings of Arabia and the rulers of the country gave gold and silver to Solomon.