Chronicles II 2:16

16 And we will cut timber out of Libanus according to all thy need, and we will bring it on rafts to the sea of Joppa, and thou shalt bring it to Jerusalem.

Chronicles II 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.

Chronicles II 2:16 In-Context

14 (his mother of the daughters of Dan, and his father a Tyrian), skilled to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in stones and wood; and to weave with purple, and blue, and fine linen, and scarlet; and to engrave, and to understand every device, whatsoever thou shalt give him with thy craftsmen, and the craftsmen of my lord David thy father.

15 And now, the wheat, and the barley, and the oil, and the wine which my lord mentioned, let him send to his servants.

16 And we will cut timber out of Libanus according to all thy need, and we will bring it on rafts to the sea of Joppa, and thou shalt bring it to Jerusalem.

17 And Solomon gathered all the foreigners that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father numbered them; and there were found a hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred.

18 And he made of them seventy thousand burden-bearers, and eighty thousand hewers of stone, and three thousand six hundred taskmasters over the people.