Thematic Bible: Cedars


Thematic Bible



His legs are as pillars of stone on a base of delicate gold; his looks are as Lebanon, beautiful as the cedar-tree. Verse ConceptsThings Like Gold

This is what the Lord has said: Further, I will take the highest top of the cedar and put it in the earth; cutting off from the highest of his young branches a soft one, I will have it planted on a high and great mountain; It will be planted on the high mountain of Israel: it will put out branches and have fruit and be a fair cedar: under it all birds of every sort will make their living-place, resting in the shade of its branches.

Though I sent destruction on the Amorite before them, who was tall as the cedar and strong as the oak-tree, cutting off his fruit from on high and his roots from under the earth. Verse ConceptsAmoritesCedarRootsGiantsOaks

You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods. Verse ConceptsChariotsCedarFelling TreesTrusting In Chariots

This is what the Lord has said: Further, I will take the highest top of the cedar and put it in the earth; cutting off from the highest of his young branches a soft one, I will have it planted on a high and great mountain; Verse ConceptsTendernessMessianic PropheciesMetaphorical PlantingThe Mountains Of Israel

And in order to make the house clean, let him take two birds and cedar-wood and red thread and hyssop; And put one of the birds to death in a vessel of earth over flowing water; And take the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread and the living bird and put them in the blood of the dead bird and in the flowing water, shaking it over the house seven times. read more.
And he will make the house clean with the blood of the bird and the flowing water and with the living bird and with the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread.

Then the priest is to give orders to take, for him who is to be made clean, two living clean birds and some cedar wood and red thread and hyssop. And the priest will give orders for one of the birds to be put to death in a vessel made of earth, over flowing water. And he will take the living bird and the wood and the red thread and the hyssop and put them in the blood of the bird which was put to death over flowing water. read more.
And shaking it seven times over the man who is to be made clean, he will say that he is clean and will let the living bird go free into the open country.

And on all the high trees of Lebanon, and on all the strong trees of Bashan; Verse ConceptsOaks

See, the Lord, the Lord of armies, is cutting off his branches with a great noise, and his strong ones are falling and his high ones are coming down. And he is cutting down the thick places of the wood with an axe, and Lebanon with its tall trees is coming down.

And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David, with cedar-trees and woodworkers and stoneworkers: and they made David a house. Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofCraftsmenMessengers Sent OutCedarCarpentersBuildingMasonsStonesZion, As A PlaceCommerceCedar Wood

And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars. And it was covered with cedar over the forty-five supports which were on the pillars, fifteen in a line.

And so it is my purpose to make a house for the name of the Lord my God, as he said to David my father, Your son, whom I will make king in your place, will be the builder of a house for my name. Verse ConceptsProperty, HousesThroneSolomon's TempleA Place For God's Name

So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood. And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.

The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches. Verse ConceptsCedarThe Mountains Of Israel

It will be planted on the high mountain of Israel: it will put out branches and have fruit and be a fair cedar: under it all birds of every sort will make their living-place, resting in the shade of its branches. Verse ConceptsBearing Fruit

The trees of the Lord are full of growth, the cedars of Lebanon of his planting; Verse ConceptsCedar

I will put in the waste land the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive-tree; and in the lowland will be planted the fir-tree, the plane, and the cypress together: Verse ConceptsFir TreesOlivesTreesWaste Places RestoredMyrtleOlive TreesChristmas Tree

And the thorn said to the trees, If it is truly your desire to make me your king, then come and put your faith in my shade; and if not, may fire come out of the thorn, burning up the cedars of Lebanon. Verse ConceptsCedarShadowsBramblesBurning PlantsPerforming The Truth


Though I sent destruction on the Amorite before them, who was tall as the cedar and strong as the oak-tree, cutting off his fruit from on high and his roots from under the earth. Verse ConceptsAmoritesCedarRootsGiantsOaks

See, a pine-tree with beautiful branches and thick growth, giving shade and very tall; and its top was among the clouds. Verse ConceptsBranches, Types OfCedarPride, Examples OfTreesThings On High

Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon. Verse ConceptsHoneyRich Foodspouse

King Solomon made himself a bed of the wood of Lebanon.

So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar-wood and cypress-wood he had need of; And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of grain, as food for his people, and twenty measures of clear oil; this he did every year.

Biting off the highest of its young branches, he took it to the land of Canaan, and put it in a town of traders. And he took some of the seed of the land, planting it in fertile earth, placing it by great waters; he put it in like a willow-tree.

O you who are living in Lebanon, making your living-place in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied will you be when pains come on you, as on a woman in childbirth! Verse ConceptsCedarLabour Pains

The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches. It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.

These were your traders in beautiful robes, in rolls of blue and needlework, and in chests of coloured cloth, corded with cords and made of cedar-wood, in them they did trade with you. Verse ConceptsBeauty, In ArtefactsClothing, Kinds OfMarketsRich ApparelCommerceBlue ClothMulti ColouredColorreinforcement

And the king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number. Verse ConceptsCedarSilverSycamoresTreesCedar WoodThe Shephelah

And I will make ready those who will send destruction on you, everyone armed for war: by them your best cedar-trees will be cut down and put in the fire. Verse ConceptsFelling TreesThose Who DestroyBurning Plants

And say, This is what the Lord has said: A great eagle with great wings, full of long feathers of different colours, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar: Verse ConceptsEaglesBirds, Types Of BirdsWings Of BirdsFeathersMulti ColouredColorRainbow

They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters. Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalSpreadingGardens

Then let the priest take cedar-wood and hyssop and red thread, and put them into the fire where the cow is burning. Verse ConceptsCrimsonWoolRed MaterialCedar Wood

They have made all your boards of fir-trees from Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make the supports for your sails. Verse ConceptsCedarFir TreesBoardsCedar Wood

He has cedars cut down for himself, he takes an oak and lets it get strong among the trees of the wood; he has an ash-tree planted, and the rain gives it growth. Verse ConceptsTreesFelling Treeswoodworkingtoughness

They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters. Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalSpreadingGardens

He made sayings about all plants, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop hanging on the wall; and about all beasts and birds and fishes and the small things of the earth. Verse ConceptsCedarHyssopPlantsRelation Of Animals To ManBeauty Of NatureFishPets


The bricks have come down, but we will put up buildings of cut stone in their place: the sycamores are cut down, but they will be changed to cedars. Verse ConceptsBricksHousesMasonsProperty, HousesStonesSycamoresFortsStone ItemsCedar WoodThings ImprovedChristmas Treerebuilding

Mountains and all hills; fruit-trees and all trees of the mountains:



Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe. Verse ConceptsCedarFir TreesFelling Trees


And Jehoash, king of Israel, sent to Amaziah, king of Judah, saying, The thorn-tree in Lebanon sent to the cedar in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son for a wife: and a beast from the woodland in Lebanon went by, crushing the thorn under his feet. Verse ConceptsCedarFablesThornsSarcasmThistlesOld Testament ParablesGiving In Marriage

And on all the high trees of Lebanon, and on all the strong trees of Bashan; Verse ConceptsOaks

He made sayings about all plants, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop hanging on the wall; and about all beasts and birds and fishes and the small things of the earth. Verse ConceptsCedarHyssopPlantsRelation Of Animals To ManBeauty Of NatureFishPets

The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches. Verse ConceptsCedarThe Mountains Of Israel

The trees of the Lord are full of growth, the cedars of Lebanon of his planting; Verse ConceptsCedar


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