47 Bible Verses about Cedar

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1 Kings 4:33

And he will speak concerning the woods, from the cedar which is in Lebanon, even to the hyssop which went forth on the wall: and he will speak upon the cattle, and upon the birds, and upon the creeping things, and upon the fishes.

Judges 9:15

And the buckthorn will say to the trees, If in truth ye anoint me for king over you, come, take refuge in my shadow: and if not, fire shall come forth from the buckthorn and shall consume the cedars of Lebanon.

2 Kings 14:9

And Jehoash king of Israel will send to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thorn-bush which was in Lebanon sent to the cedar which was in Lebanon, saying, Thou shalt give thy daughter to my son for a wife: and a beast of the field which was in Lebanon will pass by and will tread down the thorn-bush.

2 Chronicles 25:18

And Joash king of Israel will send to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thorn-bush which was in Lebanon sent to the cedar which was in Lebanon, saying, Thou shalt give thy daughter to my son for wife: and a beast of the field that was in Lebanon will pass by and tread down the thorn-bush.

2 Kings 19:23

By the hand of thy messengers thou didst reproach Jehovah, and thou wilt say, With the chariot of my horseman I came up upon the height of the mountains of the sides of Lebanon, and I said, I will cut off the height of the cedars and the chosen of its cypresses: and I will go in to the lodging-place of the extremity of the forest of its Carmel.

Isaiah 37:24

By the hand of thy servants thou didst reproach Jehovah, and wilt thou say, By the multitude of my chariots I came up to the height of the mountains, to the thighs of Lebanon; and I will cut down the stature of his cedars, the choicest of his cypresses: and I will go into the height of his extremity, the forest of his Carmel.

Psalm 29:5

The voice of Jehovah broke the cedars; and Jehovah will break the cedars of Lebanon.

Psalm 104:16

And the trees of Jehovah shall be satisfied; the cedars of Lebanon which he planted;

Isaiah 14:8

Also the cypresses rejoiced at thee, the cedars of Lebanon: From that time thou wert laid down, he cutting off will not come up against us.

Jeremiah 22:23

Thou dwelling in Lebanon, building a nest in the cedars, how being compassionated in pangs coming to thee the pain as of her bringing forth.

Ezekiel 27:5

They built all thy bounds cypress from Shenir: they took cedars from Lebanon to make a mast for thee.

Hosea 14:5-6

I will be as the dew to Israel: he shall blossom as the lily and strike his roots as Lebanon. His sprouts shall go, and his strength shall be as the olive tree, and the odor to him as Lebanon.

Zechariah 11:1-2

Open the doors, O Lebanon, and fire shall devour among thy cedars. Wail, O cypress, for the cedar fell; for the powerful ones were destroyed: wail, ye oaks of Bashan, for the forest of the vintage went down.

Ezekiel 31:3

Behold, Assur a cedar in Lebanon, fair of branch, and a shading thicket, and high of stature; and his foliage was between the thick boughs.

Job 40:17

He will bend his tail as a cedar; the sinews of his thighs will be woven together.

Psalm 80:10

Its Shadow covered the mountains, and its branches the cedars of God.

Isaiah 2:12-13

For the day to Jehovah of armies is upon all the haughty and the high, and upon all lifted up; and he was humbled: And upon all the cedars of Lebanon being high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

Ezekiel 17:22-23

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And I took from the foliage of the cedar, and I gave from the head; I will pluck its suckers a tender one, and I planted upon a mountain of height and heaped up. In the mountain of the height of Israel I will plant it: and it bare a branch, and it made fruit, and it was for a great cedar: and there dwelt under it all fowls of every wing; in the shadow of its branches shall they dwell.

Ezekiel 31:7-8

And he was fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by many waters. The cedars did not hide him in the garden of God: the cypresses were not like to his boughs, and the plane trees were not as his branches; every tree in the garden of God was not like to him in his beauty.

Amos 2:9

And I destroyed the Amorite from their face, whom his height as the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; and I will destroy his fruit from above and his roots from beneath.

Numbers 24:5-6

How good thy tents, Jacob, and thy dwellings, Israel! As valleys extended, as a garden by the river, as tents Jehovah pitched, as cedars by the waters.

Psalm 92:12-15

The just one shall flourish as the palm tree: he shall become great as the cedar in Lebanon. Those being planted in the house of Jehovah, shall flourish in the enclosures of our God. They shall yet sprout in old as; they shall be fat and green.read more.
To announce that Jehovah is upright: my rock and no iniquity in him.

Isaiah 41:17-20

The poor and the needy seeking water, and none; their tongue failing in thirst, I Jehovah will answer them; the God of Israel, I will not forsake them. I will open rivers upon naked hills, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will set the desert for a pool of water, and the dry land for goings forth of water. I will give in the desert the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the tree of oil; I will set in the sterile region the the elm and the box tree together.read more.
So that they shall see and know and attend, and consider together that the hand of Jehovah did this, and the Holy One of Israel created it

Ezekiel 17:1-4

And the word of Jehovah will be to me, saying, Son of man, propose an enigma and use a parable to the house of Israel; And say, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The great eagle great of wings, long of the wing-feather, full of feathers, which to him variegation, came to Lebanon, and he will take the foliage of the cedar.read more.
He plucked off the head of the suckers, and he will bring it to the land of Canaan, and he set it in a city of merchants.

1 Kings 10:27

And the king will give silver in Jerusalem, as stones, and cedars he gave as sycamores which are in the plain for multitude.

2 Chronicles 1:15

And the king will give the silver and the gold in Jerusalem as stones, and he gave cedars as sycamore trees which are in the low country for multitude.

2 Chronicles 9:27

And the king will give silver as stones in Jerusalem, and he gave cedars as sycamore trees in the low country, for multitude.

Isaiah 9:8-10

Jehovah sent a word into Jacob, and it fell upon Israel. And the people shall know, all they of Ephraim and the inhabitants of Shomeron, in pride and in greatness of heart, saying, The bncks fell, and we will build with hewn stone: the sycamores were cut down, and the cedars we will renew.

Leviticus 14:48-53

And if the priest coming in, shall come in and see, and behold, the stroke spread not in the house after spreading over the house: and the priest cleansed the house, for the stroke was healed. And he took to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and double scarlet, and hyssop. And he slaughtered the one bird into a vessel of earthen, over living water.read more.
And he took the cedar wood, and the hyssop and the double scarlet, and the living bird, and dipped them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the living water, and sprinkled into the house seven times. And he cleansed the house with the blood of the bird in living water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the double scarlet And he sent away the living bird without the city to the face of the field, and he expiated for the house: and it was clean.

Leviticus 14:1-7

And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, This shall be the law of the leprous in the day of his cleansing: he was brought to the priest And the priest shall go forth without the camp: and the priest saw, and behold, the stroke of leprosy was healed from the leprous.read more.
And the priest commanded, and took for him being cleansed, two clean living birds, and cedar wood, and double scarlet, and hyssop. And the priest commanded, and killed one of the birds into a vessel of earthen, over living water. The living bird he will take it, and the cedar wood and the double scarlet, and the hyssop, and he dipped them and the living bird in the blood of the bird slain over the living water. And he sprinkled upon him, being cleansed from the leprosy, seven times and cleansed him, and he sent forth the living bird upon the face of the field.

Numbers 19:1-6

And Jehovah will speak to Moses and to Aaron, saying, This is the law of the precept which to Jehovah commanded, saying, Speak the sons of Israel and they shall take to thee a red, blameless heifer, to which not a blemish in her, and which a yoke was not lifted up upon her. And give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth without the the camp, and slaughter her before him.read more.
And Eleazar the priest took from her blood with his finger, and sprinkled before the face of the tent of appointment, from her blood seven times. And he burnt the heifer before his eyes; her skin and her flesh and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn. And the priest took cedar wood and hyssop and double scarlet, and cast into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

Ezra 3:7

And they will give silver to those hewing, and to those graving, and food and drink and oil to the Zidonians, and the Tyrians, to bring cedar woods from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa according to the permit of Cyrus king of Persia to them.

2 Samuel 5:11

And Hiram, king of Tyre, will send messengers to David, and wood of cedars and artificers of wood, and artificers of stone of the wall: and they will build a house for David.

1 Kings 5:1-11

And Hiram king of Tyre will send his servants to Solomon for he heard that they anointed him for king instead of his father: for Hiram was loving to David all the days. And Solomon will send to Hiram, saying, Thou knewest David my father, that he was not able to build a house for the name of Jehovah his God from the face of wars which surrounded him, until Jehovah will give them under the soles of his feetread more.
And now Jehovah my God caused rest to me from round about; not an adversary and not an evil event And behold me saying to build a house for the name of Jehovah my God, as Jehovah spake to David my father, saying, Thy son which I will give upon thy throne instead of thee, he shall build the house to my name. And now command and they shall cut for me cedars from Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and the hire of thy servants will I give to thee according to all which thou shalt say: for thou knewest that not among us a man knowing to cut wood as the Sidonians. And it will be when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, and he will rejoice greatly, and say, Blessed Jehovah this day who gave to David a wise son over this great people. And Hiram will send to Solomon, saying, I heard what thou sentest to me: I will do all thy pleasure in woods of cedars and in woods of cypress. My servants shall bring from Lebanon to the sea, and I will put them on rafts upon the sea, even to the place where thou wilt send to me; and I dispersed them there, and thou shalt lift up and thou shalt do my pleasure to give bread to my house. And Hiram will be giving to Solomon woods of cedar and woods of cypress, all his desire. And Solomon gave to Hiram twenty thousand cons of wheat food for his house, and twenty cors of beaten oil: thus Solomon will give to Hiram year by year.

2 Chronicles 2:3-16

And Solomon will send to Huram king of Tyre, saying, According as thou didst with David my father, and thou wilt send to him cedars to build for him a house to dwell in it. Behold, I build a house to the name of Jehovah my God, to consecrate to him, to burn incense before him, incense of spices, and the arrangement always, and the burnt-offerings for morning and for evening, for the Sabbaths and for the new moons, and for the appointments of Jehovah our God. Forever this upon Israel. And the house that I build is great: for great our God above all gods.read more.
For who shall retain power to build for him a house? for the heavens and the heavens of the heavens shall not contain him: and who am I who shall build to him a house but to burn incense before him? And now send to me a man wise to work in gold and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and cerulean purple, and knowing to engrave engravings with the wise which are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, which David my father prepared. And send to me cedar trees and cypresses, and algum trees from Lebanon: for I knew that thy servants are knowing to cut trees of Lebanon; and behold, my servants with thy servants, And to prepare for me woods for multitude: for the house that I build is great and wonderful. And behold, to those hewing, to those cutting woods, wheat, the beatings out to thy servants twenty thousand cors, and barley, twenty thousand cors, and wine, twenty thousand baths, and oil, twenty thousand baths. And Huram king of Tyre will say in writing, and he will send to Solomon, In Jehovah's loving his people he gave thee king over them. And Huram will say, Praised be Jehovah God of Israel, who made the heavens and the earth, who gave to David the king a wise son, knowing intelligence and understanding, who will build a house to Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom. And now I sent a wise man knowing understanding to Huram my father, The son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father a man of Tyre knowing to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stones, and in woods, in purple, in cerulean purple, and in byssus, and in crimson; and to engrave every engraving, and to invent every work of art which shall be given to him, with thy wise ones, and the wise of my lord David thy father. And now the wheat and the bailey and the oil and the wine which my lord said he will send to his servants; And we will cut woods from Lebanon, according to all thy need: and we will bring them to thee in floats upon the sea of Joppa; and thou shalt bring them up to Jerusalem.

1 Kings 9:11

(Hiram, king of Tyre, aided Solomon in woods of cedars and in woods of cypresses, and in gold to all his desire) then king Solomon will give Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

1 Chronicles 22:4

And cedar woods to no number: for the Zidonians and the Tyrians brought cedar woods for multitude to David.

1 Kings 7:2-3

And he will build the house of the forest of Lebanon; a hundred cubits its length, and fifty cubits its breadth, and and thirty cubits its height, upon four rows of pillars of cedars, and cuttings of cedars upon the pillars. And it was covered with cedar from above upon the ribs which were upon the forty and five pillars, fifteen to the row.

2 Samuel 7:2

And the king will say to Nathan the prophet, See now, me dwelling in a house of cedars, and the ark of God dwelling in midst of the curtains.

1 Kings 7:7

And a porch of the throne upon which he will judge there, a porch of judgment he made: and it was covered with cedar from the bottom even to the bottom.

Jeremiah 22:11-15

For thus said Jehovah to Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, reigning, instead of Josiah his father, who went forth from this place: He shall no more return there: For in the place where they carried him captive, there he shall die, and shall no more see this land. Wo to him building his house not with justice, and his upper chambers not with judgment; by his neighbor he will work gratuitously, and he will give him not for his work;read more.
Saying, I will build to me a house of extension, and airy upper chambers, and he rent to himself windows; and covered with cedar, and painted with red. Shalt thou reign, for thou art kindled with cedar? did not thy father eat and drink and do judgment and justice, then it was well to him?

1 Kings 6:18

And cedar to the house within carved work with ornaments and opening flower-buds; all cedar: no stone was seen.

2 Samuel 7:7

And in all where I went among all the sons of Israel spake I a word with one of the judges of Israel whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why built ye not to me a house of cedars?

1 Kings 6:9-10

And he will build the house, and he will finish it; and cover the house with arches and rows with cedars. He will build the floor upon all the house, five cubits its height: and it will hold to the house with woods of cedars.

1 Kings 7:12

And the great enclosure round about, three rows of cuttings, and a row of cuttings of cedars, and for the enclosure of the house of Jehovah within, and for the porch of the house.

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Cedar » Figurative

Psalm 72:16

There shall be diffusion of grain in the earth upon the head of the mountains; its fruit shall shake as Lebanon, and they shall blossom from the city as the grass of the earth.

Isaiah 2:13

And upon all the cedars of Lebanon being high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

Zechariah 11:2

Wail, O cypress, for the cedar fell; for the powerful ones were destroyed: wail, ye oaks of Bashan, for the forest of the vintage went down.

Isaiah 14:8

Also the cypresses rejoiced at thee, the cedars of Lebanon: From that time thou wert laid down, he cutting off will not come up against us.

Cedar » Furnished by hiram, king of tyre, for solomon's temple

1 Kings 5:6-10

And now command and they shall cut for me cedars from Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and the hire of thy servants will I give to thee according to all which thou shalt say: for thou knewest that not among us a man knowing to cut wood as the Sidonians. And it will be when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, and he will rejoice greatly, and say, Blessed Jehovah this day who gave to David a wise son over this great people. And Hiram will send to Solomon, saying, I heard what thou sentest to me: I will do all thy pleasure in woods of cedars and in woods of cypress. read more.
My servants shall bring from Lebanon to the sea, and I will put them on rafts upon the sea, even to the place where thou wilt send to me; and I dispersed them there, and thou shalt lift up and thou shalt do my pleasure to give bread to my house. And Hiram will be giving to Solomon woods of cedar and woods of cypress, all his desire.

1 Kings 9:11

(Hiram, king of Tyre, aided Solomon in woods of cedars and in woods of cypresses, and in gold to all his desire) then king Solomon will give Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

2 Chronicles 2:16

And we will cut woods from Lebanon, according to all thy need: and we will bring them to thee in floats upon the sea of Joppa; and thou shalt bring them up to Jerusalem.

Cedar » Used » In purifications

Leviticus 14:4

And the priest commanded, and took for him being cleansed, two clean living birds, and cedar wood, and double scarlet, and hyssop.

Leviticus 14:6

The living bird he will take it, and the cedar wood and the double scarlet, and the hyssop, and he dipped them and the living bird in the blood of the bird slain over the living water.

Leviticus 14:49-52

And he took to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and double scarlet, and hyssop. And he slaughtered the one bird into a vessel of earthen, over living water. And he took the cedar wood, and the hyssop and the double scarlet, and the living bird, and dipped them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the living water, and sprinkled into the house seven times. read more.
And he cleansed the house with the blood of the bird in living water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the double scarlet

Numbers 19:6

And the priest took cedar wood and hyssop and double scarlet, and cast into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

Cedar » Used » In david's palace

2 Samuel 5:11

And Hiram, king of Tyre, will send messengers to David, and wood of cedars and artificers of wood, and artificers of stone of the wall: and they will build a house for David.

1 Chronicles 17:1

And it will be as David will sit in his house, and David will say to Nathan the prophet, Behold me dwelling in a house of cedars, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah under curtains.

Cedar » David's ample provision of, in jerusalem, for the temple

2 Chronicles 1:15

And the king will give the silver and the gold in Jerusalem as stones, and he gave cedars as sycamore trees which are in the low country for multitude.

2 Chronicles 2:3-4

And Solomon will send to Huram king of Tyre, saying, According as thou didst with David my father, and thou wilt send to him cedars to build for him a house to dwell in it. Behold, I build a house to the name of Jehovah my God, to consecrate to him, to burn incense before him, incense of spices, and the arrangement always, and the burnt-offerings for morning and for evening, for the Sabbaths and for the new moons, and for the appointments of Jehovah our God. Forever this upon Israel.

Cedar » Used » For masts of ships

Ezekiel 27:5

They built all thy bounds cypress from Shenir: they took cedars from Lebanon to make a mast for thee.

Cedar » Valuable for building purposes

Isaiah 9:10

The bncks fell, and we will build with hewn stone: the sycamores were cut down, and the cedars we will renew.

Cedar » Used » In rebuilding the temple

Ezra 3:7

And they will give silver to those hewing, and to those graving, and food and drink and oil to the Zidonians, and the Tyrians, to bring cedar woods from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa according to the permit of Cyrus king of Persia to them.

Cedar » Used » In solomon's palace

1 Kings 7:2

And he will build the house of the forest of Lebanon; a hundred cubits its length, and fifty cubits its breadth, and and thirty cubits its height, upon four rows of pillars of cedars, and cuttings of cedars upon the pillars.

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1 Kings 10:27

And the king will give silver in Jerusalem, as stones, and cedars he gave as sycamores which are in the plain for multitude.

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Leviticus 14:4

And the priest commanded, and took for him being cleansed, two clean living birds, and cedar wood, and double scarlet, and hyssop.

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