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and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you need. We will bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa; then you shall carry it up to Jerusalem.”
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Verse 16. Floats. So the Septuagint well express the Hebrew raphsodoth, which seems to be borrowed from the Greek Ραψωδια, which denotes a collection of verses ( Calmet.) and was applied to Homer’s poems, before they were collected. Ælian xiii. 14. Joppe was a port much used, ( Calmet.) though dangerous. Joseph. Bel. iii. 15.
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