2 Chronicles 2:16

16 and we will cut wood from the L'vanon, as much as you need; we will float it to you as rafts by sea to Yafo, and you will take it up to Yerushalayim."

2 Chronicles 2:16 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 2:16

And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shall
need
Both cedar and fir, ( 1 Kings 5:8 1 Kings 5:10 ) ,

and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa;
a port in the Mediterranean sea, the same that Jonah went down to, (See Gill on 1 Kings 5:9),

and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem;
in land carriages, about forty miles off.

2 Chronicles 2:16 In-Context

14 the son of a woman who was one of the daughters of Dan, while his father was a man from Tzor. He is skilled in working gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and timber, as well as purple and blue dyed materials, fine linen and crimson material; he can do any kind of engraving; and he can make all the equipment necessary to accomplish any task assigned to him, with the help of your craftsmen and those of my lord David your father.

15 Therefore let my lord send his servants the wheat, barley, oil and wine he has spoken of;

16 and we will cut wood from the L'vanon, as much as you need; we will float it to you as rafts by sea to Yafo, and you will take it up to Yerushalayim."

17 Shlomo took a census of all the foreigners in the land of Isra'el, following the pattern of the census of David his father; they were found to number 153,600.

18 He appointed 70,000 of them to carry loads, 80,000 to be stonecutters in the hills and 3,600 as supervisors to assign the people their work.