My servants shall bring them down (A)from Lebanon to the sea; I will float them in rafts by sea to the place you indicate to me, and will have them broken apart there; then you can take them away. And you shall fulfill my desire (B)by giving food for my household.

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17 Judah and the land of Israel were your traders. They traded for your merchandise wheat of (A)Minnith, millet, honey, oil, and (B)balm.

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They also gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and (A)food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to the sea, to (B)Joppa, (C)according to the permission which they had from Cyrus king of Persia.

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Herod’s Violent Death

20 Now Herod had been very angry with the people of (A)Tyre and Sidon; but they came to him with one accord, and having made Blastus [a]the king’s personal aide their friend, they asked for peace, because (B)their country was [b]supplied with food by the king’s country.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 12:20 who was in charge of the king’s bedchamber
  2. Acts 12:20 Lit. nourished

16 (A)And we will cut wood from Lebanon, as much as you need; we will bring it to you in rafts by sea to [a]Joppa, and you will carry it up to Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 2:16 Heb. Japho

15 (A)Also the king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars as abundant as the sycamores which are in the lowland.

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25 I pray, let me cross over and see (A)the good land beyond the Jordan, those pleasant mountains, and Lebanon.’

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