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Lebanon

Lebanon (Biblical Place • 33.752°N, 35.591°E): region. Referenced in Deut 1:7 , Deut 3:25 , Deut 11:24 , Josh 1:4 , Josh 9:1 . Within the broader Biblical Knowledge Graph, this connects directly to Solomon's Temple & Wisdom Literature—King Solomon constructed the First Temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah ( 1 Kings 6 , 2 Chronicles 3 ) to house the Ark of the Covenant and fostered Israel 's golden age of biblical wisdom literature.

Biblical Geography & Sacred Architecture

Key geographical locations connected to this topic include Lebanon (region. Referenced in Deut 1:7 , Deut 3:25 , Deut 11:24 , Josh 1:4 , Josh 9:1 .) House of the Forest of Lebanon (Ancient biblical location referenced in 1 Kgs 7:2 , 1 Kgs 10:17 , 1 Kgs 10:21 , 2 Chr 9:16 , 2 Chr 9:20 (identified with Jerusalem ).) Valley of Lebanon (Ancient biblical location referenced in Josh 11:17 , Josh 12:7 (identified with Mount Hermon ).) Mount Lebanon (Ancient biblical location referenced in Judg 3:3 (identified with Lebanon ).)

Scripture Witness (KJV) & Canonical Context

Primary KJV scripture witnesses include 1 Kings 5:14 : "And he sent them to Lebanon , ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon , and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the levy."; 2 Chronicles 25:18 : "And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah , saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: ..."; 2 Kings 14:9 : "And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah , saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to ...". Related canonical books and chapters: 2 Chronicles 2 ( 2 Chronicles • Chapter 2 (18 verses)), 1 Kings 5 ( 1 Kings • Chapter 5 (18 verses)), 1 Kings 7 ( 1 Kings • Chapter 7 (51 verses)).

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Topics, People & Places (36)

Lebanon
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Biblical Place • 33.752°N, 35.591°E

region. Referenced in Deut 1:7 , Deut 3:25 , Deut 11:24 , Josh 1:4 , Josh 9:1 .

Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in 1 Kgs 7:2 , 1 Kgs 10:17 , 1 Kgs 10:21 , 2 Chr 9:16 , 2 Chr 9:20 (identified with Jerusalem ).

Valley of Lebanon
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Biblical Place • Mount Hermon • 33.416°N, 35.857°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Josh 11:17 , Josh 12:7 (identified with Mount Hermon ).

Mount Lebanon
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Biblical Place • Lebanon • 33.752°N, 35.591°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Judg 3:3 (identified with Lebanon ).

2 Chronicles 2
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2 Chronicles • Chapter 2 (18 verses)

And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the Lord, and an house for his kingdom. And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them. And Solomon se... Mentions: Solomon, David , Jacob/Israel , Judah , Dan , Tyre , Jerusalem , Lebanon , Joppa .

1 Kings 5
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1 Kings • Chapter 5 (18 verses)

And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon ; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David . And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name ... Mentions: Solomon, David, Jacob/Israel , Tyre , Lebanon , Solomon's .

1 Kings 7
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1 Kings • Chapter 7 (51 verses)

But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon ; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pi... Mentions: Solomon , Naphtali , Boaz , David , Lebanon , Tyre , Jordan , Succoth 1 , Zarethan .

2 Chronicles 9
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2 Chronicles • Chapter 9 (31 verses)

And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon , she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem , with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all... Mentions: Solomon, Jacob/Israel , Judah , Nathan , Iddo , Sheba , Jerusalem , Ophir , Arabia , Lebanon .

2 Chronicles 8
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2 Chronicles • Chapter 8 (18 verses)

And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the Lord, and his own house, That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon , Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there. And Solomon went to Hamath –zobah, and pre... Mentions: Solomon, Jacob/Israel , David , Moses , Esau ( Edom ), Hamath , Tadmor , Baalath 2 , Jerusalem , Lebanon .

Song of Solomon
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Old Testament • 8 Chapters

Song of Solomon (Old Testament, 8 chapters). Key figures: Solomon , Jacob/Israel , David , Baal . Key places: Solomon's , Jerusalem , Kedar , Sharon 1 , Lebanon , Zion . Opens with: "The song of songs, which is Solomon's ...."

Isaiah 35
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Isaiah • Chapter 35 (10 verses)

The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon , they shall se... Mentions: Lebanon , Carmel , Sharon 1 , Zion .

Aphek 1
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Biblical Place • 34.066°N, 35.866°E

http://www.traveljournals.net/explore/lebanon/map/m1170262/hamul.html. Referenced in Josh 13:4 , Josh 19:30 .

Wiki Article • Prophets & Wisdom

King Solomon constructed the First Temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah ( 1 Kings 6 , 2 Chronicles 3 ) to house the Ark of the Covenant and fostered Israel 's golden age of biblical wisdom literature.

Song of Solomon • Chapter 4 (16 verses)

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead . Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, an... Mentions: David , Gilead , Lebanon , Amana , Senir , Hermon .

Song of Solomon • Chapter 3 (11 verses)

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. The watchmen that go about the city found m... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Solomon , Jerusalem , Solomon's , Lebanon , Zion .

Isaiah 2
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Isaiah • Chapter 2 (22 verses)

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem . And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. A... Mentions: Jeshaiah ( Isaiah ), Judah , Jacob/Israel , Jerusalem , Zion , Lebanon , Bashan , Tarshish .

Hosea 14
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Hosea • Chapter 14 (9 verses)

O Israel , return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips. Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon ho... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Asshur , Ephraim , Lebanon .

Psalms 29
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Psalms • Chapter 29 (11 verses)

Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty, give unto the Lord glory and strength. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters. Mentions: Lebanon , Sirion , Kadesh 1 .

2 Chronicles
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Old Testament • 36 Chapters

2 Chronicles (Old Testament, 36 chapters). Key figures: Solomon , David , Jacob/Israel , Moses , Judah , Dan . Key places: Gibeon , Jerusalem , Egypt , Syria , Tyre , Lebanon . Opens with: "And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly...."

Ezekiel 27
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Ezekiel • Chapter 27 (36 verses)

The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre ; And say unto Tyre , O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord God; O Tyre, thou hast said, I am of p... Mentions: Lud , Judah , Jacob/Israel , Dan , Haran , Tyre, Senir , Lebanon , Bashan , Kittim .

Isaiah 33
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Isaiah • Chapter 33 (24 verses)

Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee. O Lo... Mentions: Zion , Lebanon , Sharon 1 , Bashan , Carmel .

1 Kings 10
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1 Kings • Chapter 10 (29 verses)

And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to prove him with hard questions. And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to ... Mentions: Solomon , Jacob/Israel , Sheba , Jerusalem , Solomon's , Ophir , Arabia .

Zechariah 11
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Zechariah • Chapter 11 (17 verses)

Open thy doors, O Lebanon , that the fire may devour thy cedars. 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. There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spo... Mentions: Judah , Jacob/Israel , Lebanon , Bashan , Jordan .

Ezekiel 17
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Ezekiel • Chapter 17 (24 verses)

And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel ; And say, Thus saith the Lord God; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon , and took the h... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Lebanon , Babylon , Jerusalem , Egypt .

Isaiah 40
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Isaiah • Chapter 40 (31 verses)

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem , and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness... Mentions: Judah , Jacob/Israel , Jerusalem , Zion , Lebanon .

Habakkuk
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Old Testament • 3 Chapters

Habakkuk (Old Testament, 3 chapters). Key figures: Teman , Midian . Key places: Lebanon , Teman , Paran , Cushan , Midian . Opens with: "The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see...."

Psalms 104
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Psalms • Chapter 104 (35 verses)

Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his... Mentions: Lebanon .

Isaiah 14
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Isaiah • Chapter 14 (32 verses)

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob , and will yet choose Israel , and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shal... Mentions: Jacob/Israel, Ahaz , Babylon , Lebanon , Philistia , Zion .

Habakkuk 2
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Habakkuk • Chapter 2 (20 verses)

I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision ... Mentions: Lebanon .

2 Chronicles 25
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2 Chronicles • Chapter 25 (28 verses)

Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem . And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem . And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart. Now it came to pass, when the... Mentions: Amaziah , Moses , Judah , Benjamin , Jacob/Israel , Jerusalem, Ephraim , Seir , Samaria , Lebanon .

2 Kings 14
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2 Kings • Chapter 14 (29 verses)

In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah . He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem . And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem . And he did that wh... Mentions: Joash, Jehoahaz (or Johanan ), Jacob/Israel , Amaziah , Judah , Jerusalem, Edom , Sela , Joktheel 1 , Lebanon .

Song of Solomon • Chapter 7 (13 verses)

How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies. Thy two breasts ... Mentions: Heshbon , Lebanon , Damascus , Carmel .

Psalms 72
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Psalms • Chapter 72 (20 verses)

Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son. He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment. The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness. Mentions: Jacob/Israel , David , Jesse , Tarshish , Sheba , Seba , Lebanon .

Deuteronomy 11
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Deuteronomy • Chapter 11 (32 verses)

Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway. And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the Lord your God, his gre... Mentions: Eliab , Reuben , Jacob/Israel , Egypt , Lebanon , Euphrates , Jordan , Gilgal 1 .

Nahum
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Old Testament • 3 Chapters

Nahum (Old Testament, 3 chapters). Key figures: Nahum, Judah , Jacob/Israel . Key places: Nineveh , Bashan , Carmel , Lebanon , Ethiopia , Egypt . Opens with: "The burden of Nineveh . The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite...."

Ezekiel 31
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Ezekiel • Chapter 31 (18 verses)

And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt , and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar i... Mentions: Egypt , Lebanon , Eden .

Scripture Passages (24)

1 Kings 5:14 (KJV)
1 Kings 5 KJV

And he sent them to Lebanon , ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon , and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the levy.

And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah , saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon , saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.

And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah , saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon , saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.

2 Chronicles 2:8 (KJV)
2 Chronicles 2 KJV

Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon : for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon ; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,

Come with me from Lebanon , my spouse, with me from Lebanon : look from the top of Amana , from the top of Senir and Hermon , from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

Open thy doors, O Lebanon , that the fire may devour thy cedars.

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

A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon .

And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon .

He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon .

The trees of the Lord are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon , which he hath planted;

His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon .

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

And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan , that goodly mountain, and Lebanon .

I will be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon .

They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir : they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.

And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon , toward the sunrising, from Baal –gad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath .

The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

Go up to Lebanon , and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan , and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.

He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel , and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon , excellent as the cedars.

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