'Oaks' in the Bible
So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the Lord.
One of the survivors came and told Abram the Hebrew, who lived near the oaks belonging to Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and the brother of Aner. They were bound by a treaty with Abram.
Then the Lord appeared to Abraham at the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting in the entrance of his tent during the heat of the day.
Aren’t these mountains across the Jordan, beyond the western road in the land of the Canaanites, who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, near the oaks of Moreh?
against all the cedars of Lebanon,lofty and lifted up,against all the oaks of Bashan,
who burn with lust among the oaks,under every green tree,who slaughter children in the wadisbelow the clefts of the rocks?
They made your oars of oaks from Bashan.They made your deck of cypress woodfrom the coasts of Cyprus,inlaid with ivory.
They sacrifice on the mountaintops,and they burn offerings on the hills,and under oaks, poplars, and terebinths,because their shade is pleasant.And so your daughters act promiscuouslyand your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
Yet I destroyed the Amorite as Israel advanced;his height was like the cedars,and he was as sturdy as the oaks;I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.
Wail, cypress, for the cedar has fallen;the glorious trees are destroyed!Wail, oaks of Bashan,for the stately forest has fallen!
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