Lebanon
was mentioned 71 times in the Holy Bible
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Deuteronomy 1:7
. ...turn and take your
journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors
in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland, and in the Negeb, and by
the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon,
as far as the great river, the river Euphra'tes.
Deuteronomy 3:25
Let me go over, I
pray, and see the good land beyond the Jordan, that goodly hill country, and Lebanon.'
Deuteronomy 11:24
Every place on which
the sole of your foot treads shall be yours; your territory shall be from the
wilderness and Lebanon and from the River, the
river Euphra'tes, to the western sea.
Joshua 1:4
From the wilderness
and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the
river Euphra'tes, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going
down of the sun shall be your territory.
Joshua 9:1
When all the kings
who were beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the lowland all along the
coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the
Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the
Jeb'usites, heard of this
Joshua 11:17
... from Mount
Halak, that rises toward Se'ir, as far as Ba'al-gad in the valley of Lebanon
below Mount Hermon. And he took all their kings, and smote them, and put them
to death.
Joshua 12:7
And these are the
kings of the land whom Joshua and the people of Israel defeated on the west side
of the Jordan, from Ba'al-gad in the valley of Lebanon
to Mount Halak, that rises toward Se'ir (and Joshua gave their land to the
tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotments,
Joshua 13:5
and the land of the
Geb'alites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising,
from Ba'al-gad below Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath,
Joshua 13:6
all the inhabitants
of the hill country from Lebanon to
Mis'rephoth-ma'im, even all the Sido'nians. I will myself drive them out from
before the people of Israel; only allot the land to Israel for an inheritance,
as I have commanded you.
Judges 3:3
These are the
nations: the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the
Sido'nians, and the Hivites who dwelt on Mount Lebanon,
from Mount Ba'al-her'mon as far as the entrance of Hamath.
Judges 9:15
And the bramble said
to the trees, 'If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come
and take refuge in my shade; but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and
devour the cedars of Lebanon.'
1 Kings 4:33
He spoke of trees,
from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop
that grows out of the wall; he spoke also of beasts, and of birds, and of
reptiles, and of fish.
1 Kings 5:6
Now therefore command
that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me; and my
servants will join your servants, and I will pay you for your servants such
wages as you set; for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to
cut timber like the Sido'nians."
1 Kings 5:9
My servants shall
bring it down to the sea from Lebanon; and I will
make it into rafts to go by sea to the place you direct, and I will have them
broken up there, and you shall receive it; and you shall meet my wishes by
providing food for my household."
1 Kings 5:14
And he sent them to Lebanon,
ten thousand a month in relays; they would be a month in Lebanon
and two months at home; Adoni'ram was in charge of the levy.
1 Kings 7:2
He built the House of
the Forest of Lebanon; its length was a hundred
cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, and it was
built upon three rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
1 Kings 9:19
and all the
store-cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the
cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in
Jerusalem, in
Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
1 Kings 10:17
And he made
three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each
shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of
Lebanon.
1 Kings 10:21
All King Solomon's
drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the
Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none
were of silver, it
was not considered
as anything in the days of Solomon.
2 Kings 14:9
And Jeho'ash
king of Israel sent word to Amazi'ah king of Judah, "A thistle on Lebanon
sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, 'Give
your daughter to
my son for a
wife'; and a wild beast of Lebanon passed
by and trampled down the thistle.
2 Kings 19:23
By your messengers
you have mocked the LORD, and you have said, 'With my many chariots I have
gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far
recesses of
Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its
choicest cypresses; I entered its farthest retreat, its densest forest.
2 Chronicles
2:8
Send me also
cedar, cypress, and algum timber from Lebanon,
for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon.
And my servants
will be with
your servants,
2 Chronicles
2:16
and we will
cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon,
and bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may take it up
to Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles
8:6
and Ba'alath,
and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots,
and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired
to build in
Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land
of his dominion.
2 Chronicles
9:16
And he made
three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels of gold went
into each shield; and the king put them in the House of the
Forest of Lebanon.
2 Chronicles
9:20
All King Solomon's
drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the
Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; silver
was not
considered as
anything in the days of Solomon.
2 Chronicles
25:18
And Jo'ash the
king of Israel sent word to Amazi'ah king of Judah, "A thistle on Lebanon
sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, 'Give
your daughter to
my son for a
wife'; and a wild beast of Lebanon passed
by and trampled down the thistle.
Ezra 3:7
So they gave
money to the masons and the carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the
Sido'nians and the Tyrians to bring cedar trees from Lebanon
to
the sea, to
Joppa, according to the grant which they had from Cyrus king of Persia.
Psalms 29:5
The voice of
the LORD breaks the cedars, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
Psalms 29:6
He makes Lebanon
to skip like a calf, and Si'rion like a young wild ox.
Psalms 37:35
I have seen
a wicked man overbearing, and towering like a cedar of Lebanon
Psalms 72:16
May there be
abundance of grain in the land; on the tops of the mountains may it wave;
may its fruit be like Lebanon; and may men
blossom forth from
the cities like
the grass of the field!
Psalms 92:12
The righteous
flourish like the palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Psalms 104:16
The trees of
the LORD are watered abundantly, the cedars of Lebanon
which he planted.
Song of Solomon
3:9
King Solomon
made himself a palanquin from the wood of Lebanon.
Song of Solomon
4:8
Come with me
from Lebanon, my bride; come with me from
Lebanon. Depart from the peak of Ama'na, from
the peak of Senir and Hermon, from
the dens of
lions, from the mountains of leopards.
Song of Solomon
4:11
Your lips distil
nectar, my bride; honey and milk are under your tongue; the scent of your
garments is like the scent of Lebanon
Song of Solomon
4:15
a garden fountain,
a well of living water, and flowing streams from Lebanon.
Song of Solomon
5:15
His legs are
alabaster columns, set upon bases of gold. His appearance is like Lebanon,
choice as the cedars.
Song of Solomon
7:4
Your neck is
like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rab'bim.
Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, overlooking
Damascus.
Isaiah 2:13
against all
the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up;
and against all the oaks of Bashan;
Isaiah 10:34
He will cut
down the thickets of the forest with an axe, and Lebanon
with its majestic trees will fall.
Isaiah 14:8
The cypresses
rejoice at you, the cedars of Lebanon, saying,
'Since you were laid low, no hewer comes up against us.'
Isaiah 29:17
Is it not yet
a very little while until Lebanon shall be
turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded
as a forest?
Isaiah 33:9
The land mourns
and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and
withers away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off
their leaves.
Isaiah 35:2
it shall blossom
abundantly, and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon
shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall
see the glory
of the LORD, the majesty of our God.
Isaiah 37:24
By your servants
you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, With my many chariots I have
gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far
recesses of
Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its
choicest cypresses; I came to its remotest height, its densest forest.
Isaiah 40:16
Lebanon
would not suffice for fuel, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.
Isaiah 60:13
The glory of
Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress, the
plane, and the pine, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will
make the place of my
feet glorious.
Jeremiah 18:14
Does the snow
of Lebanon leave the crags of Si'rion? Do
the mountain waters run dry, the cold flowing streams?
Jeremiah 22:6
For thus says
the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah: "'You are as Gilead
to me, as the summit of Lebanon, yet surely
I will make you a
desert, an uninhabited
city.
Jeremiah 22:20
"Go up to Lebanon,
and cry out, and lift up your voice in Bashan; cry from Ab'arim, for all
your lovers are destroyed.
Jeremiah 22:23
O inhabitant
of Lebanon, nested among the cedars, how you
will groan when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in travail!"
Ezekiel 17:3
say, Thus says
the Lord GOD: A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, rich in
plumage of many colors, came to Lebanon and
took the top of
the cedar;
Ezekiel 27:5
They made all
your planks of fir trees from Senir; they took a cedar from Lebanon
to make a mast for you.
Ezekiel 31:3
Behold, I will
liken you to a cedar in Lebanon, with fair
branches and forest shade, and of great height, its top among the clouds.
Ezekiel 31:15
"Thus says the
Lord GOD: When it goes down to Sheol I will make the deep mourn for it,
and restrain its rivers, and many waters shall be stopped; I
will clothe
Lebanon in gloom for it, and all the trees
of the field shall faint because of it.
Ezekiel 31:16
I will make
the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol
with those who go down to the Pit; and all the trees of Eden, the
choice and best
of Lebanon, all that drink water, will be
comforted in the nether world.
Hosea 14:6
his shoots shall
spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive, and his fragrance like
Lebanon.
Hosea 14:7
They shall return
and dwell beneath my shadow, they shall flourish as a garden; they shall
blossom as the vine, their fragrance shall be like the wine of
Lebanon.
Nahum 1:4
He rebukes the
sea and makes it dry, he dries up all the rivers; Bashan and Carmel wither,
the bloom of Lebanon fades.
Habakkuk 2:17
The violence
done to Lebanon will overwhelm you; the destruction
of the beasts will terrify you, for the blood of men and violence to the
earth, to
cities and all
who dwell therein.
Zechariah 10:10
I will bring
them home from the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria; and I will
bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon,
till there is no
room for them.
Zechariah 11:1
Open your doors,
O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars!
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