1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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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.)