Cedar Tree

A very valued wood. 71 times in Scripture

Cedar (tree) wood: Leviticus 14:4,6,49,51-52, Numbers 19:6,
1 Kings 5:8, 6:9-10,15,16,6:20,36, 7:2-3,7,12, 2 Kings 14:9 2 Chronicles 25:18

Cedar trees mentioned in:
Numbers 24:6 2 Samuel 5:11 1 Kings 4:33, 5:6,10, 9:11
2 Kings 19:23 1 Chronicles 22:4 2 Chronicles 1:15, 2:8, 9:27 Ezra 3:7

House of cedar
2 Samuel 7:2,7 1 Kings 6:18
Song of Solomon 1:17, 8:9 Jeremiah 22:14-15

Similtudes:
Job 40:17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. (The Behemoth vs 15)
Psalm 92:12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

A valued wood: Ezekiel 17:3,22-24, 31:3

When Israel fails to obey the Lord God:
Zephaniah 2:14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds; for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Zechariah 11:2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.

Promise to Israel: (Read Isaiah 41)
Isaiah 41:19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:

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