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My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you specify to me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you will receive them. You will accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.”
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Verse 9. There. Joppe was fixed upon, as the port nearest Jerusalem, 2 Chronicles 2:16. The trees were squared and rolled, ( Calmet.) or dragged ( Bible.) from the mountain-top to the river Adonis, or the plain of Biblos, and then sent in floats by sea. Calmet.—Household, for the workmen employed in cutting the wood; (2 Par. Menochius.) and also for Hiram’s other servants, as the kings of the East paid them not with money. Calmet.—The Tyrians neglected agriculture. Servius.
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