2 Chronicles 2:15-17

New Catholic Bible

¹⁵ “And now, let my lord send to his servants the wheat, barley, oil, and wine which he has promised. ¹⁶ We shall cut down all the timber you need from Lebanon and float it all down to you as rafts by sea to Joppa. Then it will be your responsibility to transport it to Jerusalem.”

¹⁷ Shortly thereafter Solomon took a census of all the aliens who were residing in the land of Israel, similar to the census that his father David had taken. There were found to be one hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred aliens.