| II Chronicles 2:16
| And we will cut down as many trees out of Libanus, as thou shalt want, and will convey them in floats by sea to Joppe: and it will be thy part to bring them thence to Jerusalem.
| Floats. So the Septuagint well express the Hebrew raphsodoth, which seems to be borrowed from the Greek Rapsodia, which denotes a collection of verses (Calmet) and was applied to Homer's poems, before they were collected. (Aelian 13:14.) Joppe was a port much used, (Calmet) though dangerous. (Josephus, Jewish Wars 3:15.)
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