2 Chronicles 2:16

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 19:46 : 46 Me Jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border over against Joppa.
  • 1 Kgs 5:8-9 : 8 Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, "I have heard the message which you have sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. 9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you shall receive them. You shall accomplish my desire, in giving 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 them of Sidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
  • John 1:3 : 3 All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.
  • Acts 9:36 : 36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.
  • Acts 10:32 : 32 Send therefore to Joppa, and summon Simon, who is surnamed Peter. He lodges in the house of Simon a tanner, by the seaside. When he comes, he will speak to you.'

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    7 "Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave [all kinds of] engravings, [to be] with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.

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

    9 even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

    10 Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters 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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    8 Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, "I have heard the message which you have sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.

    9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you shall receive them. You shall accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household."

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

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

  • 2 Chr 2:14-15
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    14 the 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 brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind of engraving, and to devise any device; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.

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

  • 1 Kgs 5:6
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    6 Now therefore command that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon. My servants shall be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you shall say. For you know that there is not among us any who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians."

  • 1 Chr 22:4
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    4 and cedar trees without number: for the Sidonians and they of Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David.

  • 2 Chr 2:1-3
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    1 Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.

    2 Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

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

  • 1 Kgs 10:11-12
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    11 The navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees and precious stones.

    12 The king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of Yahweh, and for the king's house, harps also and stringed instruments for the singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen, to this day.

  • 2 Chr 1:15-16
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    15 The king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.

    16 The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt and from Kue; the king's merchants purchased them from Kue.

  • 1 Kgs 9:27-28
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    27 Hiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

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

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

  • 1 Chr 22:14-16
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    14 Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the house of Yahweh one hundred thousand talents of gold, one million talents of silver, and brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance. I have also prepared timber and stone; and you may add to them.

    15 There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work:

    16 of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise and be doing, and may Yahweh be with you."

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

  • 2 Kgs 6:4
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    4 So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.

  • 1 Kgs 5:15
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    15 Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;

  • Ezek 27:5
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    5 They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; they have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

  • 2 Chr 9:27
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    27 The king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.

  • 1 Kgs 10:27
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    27 The king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
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    6 to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house.

  • 2 Chr 2:17-18
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    17 Solomon numbered all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them; and they were found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.

    18 He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people at work.

  • 1 Kgs 5:18
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    18 Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

  • 1 Kgs 7:13
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    13 King Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.

  • 1 Chr 14:1
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    1 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.

  • 2 Chr 8:18
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    18 Huram sent him ships and servants who had knowledge of the sea by the hands of his servants; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from there four hundred fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

  • 2 Chr 9:10
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    10 The servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.

  • Ezra 3:7
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    7 They gave money also to the masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, to them of Sidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.

  • 1 Chr 22:2
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    2 David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut worked stones to build the house of God.

  • 2 Kgs 6:2
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    2 Please let us go to the Jordan, and every man take a beam from there, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell." He answered, "Go!"

  • 2 Chr 34:11
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    11 even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy cut stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

  • 1 Kgs 7:2
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    2 For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was one hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.

  • 2 Chr 2:12
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  • 2 Sam 5:11
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  • 1 Kgs 9:11
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  • 2 Kgs 12:12
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    12 and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the breaches of the house of Yahweh, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

  • 2 Chr 9:14
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    14 besides that which the traders and merchants brought: and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.