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

2 Chronicles 2:16 · WEB

This verse in other languages

ગુજરાતી2 કાળવૃતાંત ૨:૧૬
તારે જોઈએ તેટલાં લાકડાં અમે લબાનોનમાંથી કાપીશું. અને તેના તરાપા બાંધીને અમે તે સમુદ્રના માર્ગે યાફામાં તારી પાસે લાવીશું અને ત્યાંથી તું તે યરુશાલેમ લઈ જજે.”
हिन्दी2 इतिहास २:१६
और हम लोग जितनी लकड़ी का तुझे प्रयोजन हो उतनी लबानोन पर से काटेंगे, और बेड़े बनवाकर समुद्र के मार्ग से याफा को पहुँचाएँगे, और तू उसे यरूशलेम को ले जाना।”

In context

14the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre. He is skillful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, in timber, in purple, in blue, 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, the barley, the oil, and the wine which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants;

16and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you need. We will bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa; then you shall carry it up to Jerusalem.”

17Solomon counted all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the census with which David his father had counted them; and they found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.

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

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