Meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon and Tyre The inhabitants of those towns wanted provisions more than money, as appears by the history of Solomon's building, 1 Kings 5:10. To bring cedar- trees from Lebanon Tyre and Zidon now, as of old, furnished them with workmen, and Lebanon with timber, orders for both which they had from Cyrus. What God calls us to we may depend upon his providence to furnish us with.
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Ezra 3:7
7 They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters;d and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.