2 Chronicles 2:16-18
1599 Geneva Bible
16 And we will cut wood in Lebanon as much as thou shalt need, and will bring it to thee in [a]rafts by the sea to [b]Japho, so thou mayest carry them to Jerusalem.
17 ¶ And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering that his father David had numbered them: and they were found an hundred and three and fifty thousand, and six hundred.
18 And he set seventy thousand of them to the burden, and fourscore thousand to hew stones in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to cause the people to work.
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- 2 Chronicles 2:16 Or, ships.
- 2 Chronicles 2:16 Or, Joppa.
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