Judges 9:15
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15 The bramble said to the trees,
“If you really are anointing me
as king over you,
come and find refuge in my shade.
But if not,
may fire come out from the bramble
and consume the cedars of Lebanon.”
2 Samuel 5:11
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11 King Hiram of Tyre sent envoys to David; he also sent cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons,(A) and they built a palace for David.
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2 Samuel 7:2
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2 the king said to the prophet Nathan,(A) “Look, I am living in a cedar house while the ark of God sits inside tent curtains.”(B)
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2 Samuel 7:7
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7 In all my journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever spoken a word to one of the tribal leaders of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, asking: Why haven’t you built me a house of cedar?’
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1 Kings 5:13
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Solomon’s Workforce
13 Then King Solomon drafted forced laborers from all Israel;(A) the labor force numbered thirty thousand men.
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1 Kings 6:9-10
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9 When he finished building the temple,(A) he paneled it with boards and planks of cedar. 10 He built the chambers along the entire temple, joined to the temple with cedar beams;(B) each story was 7½ feet high.
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Psalm 29:5
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5 The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars;
the Lord shatters the cedars of Lebanon.(A)
Song of Songs 1:17
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17 the beams of our house are cedars,
and our rafters are cypresses.[a]
Footnotes
- 1:17 Or firs, or pines
Song of Songs 8:9
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9 If she is a wall,
we will build a silver barricade on her.
If she is a door,
we will enclose her with cedar planks.(A)
Amos 2:9
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9 Yet I destroyed the Amorite(A) as Israel advanced;
his height(B) was like the cedars,
and he was as sturdy as the oaks;
I destroyed his fruit(C) above and his roots beneath.
Zechariah 11:1-2
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Israel’s Shepherds: Good and Bad
11 Open your gates, Lebanon,
and fire will consume your cedars.(A)
2 Wail, cypress,(B) for the cedar has fallen;
the glorious trees are destroyed!
Wail, oaks of Bashan,(C)
for the stately forest has fallen!
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