2 Chronicles 2:8-10
2:8 Send me cedars, evergreens, and algum
trees from Lebanon, for I know your servants are adept
at cutting down trees in Lebanon. My servants will work with your servants
2:9 to supply me with large quantities of timber, for I am building a great, magnificent temple.
2:10 Look, I will pay your servants who cut the timber 20,000 kors
of ground wheat, 20,000 kors of barley, 120,000 gallons
of wine, and 120,000 gallons of olive oil.”
Ezra 3:7
Preparations for Rebuilding the Temple
3:7 So they provided money for the masons and carpenters, and food, beverages, and olive oil for the people of Sidon and Tyre, so that they would bring cedar timber from Lebanon to the seaport at Joppa, in accord with the edict of King Cyrus of Persia.
Ezra 6:4
6:4 with three layers of large stones
and one
layer of timber. The expense is to be subsidized
by the royal treasury.
Zechariah 11:1-2
The History and Future of Judah’s Wicked Kings
11:1 Open your gates, Lebanon,
so that the fire may consume your cedars.
11:2 Howl, fir tree,
because the cedar has fallen;
the majestic trees have been destroyed.
Howl, oaks of Bashan,
because the impenetrable forest has fallen.