2 Chronicles 2:16

16 and we will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon, and bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may take it up to Jerusalem."

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 of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre. He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him, with your craftsmen, the craftsmen of my lord, David your father.

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

16 and we will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon, and bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may take it up to Jerusalem."

17 Then Solomon took a census of all the aliens who were in the land of Israel, after the census of them which David his father had taken; and there were found a hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred.

18 Seventy thousand of them he assigned to bear burdens, eighty thousand to quarry in the hill country, and three thousand six hundred as overseers to make the people work.