Thematic Bible: The inhabitants of, contributed cedar for the first and second temple
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They paid masons and carpenters in cash. They paid the residents of Sidon and Tyre with food, drink, and oil, for them to bring cedar trees by sea from Lebanon to Joppa in accordance with the order they had obtained from Cyrus, king of Persia.
Now therefore please order that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants, and I will pay your servants whatever wages you set, because you know there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians do."
as well as an innumerable amount of cedar logs, since the Sidonians and Tyrians brought vast amounts of cedar to David.