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Lebanon

In the Bible, Lebanon is not the name of a country, but the name of a mountainous region.  It borders and runs parallel to the Mediterranean coast for about 100 miles beginning  at the mouth of the Litany River, north of the city of Tyre.  The area is actually two mountain ranges, approximately parallel to each other.  Today the western range is called the Lebanon Mountains or Mount Lebanon, and the eastern range is called the Anti-Lebanon Mountains.  The southern part of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains is the location of Mount Hermon, which in the Bible is also called Sirion and Senir (Dt. 3:9).  The two ranges are separated by the Beka'a Valley, a flat plain which is the northernmost part of the Great Rift Valley running down to Mozambique in east Africa.  The Biblical name for this Great Rift Valley is the Arabah.  The name Lebanon comes from the word for "white" because the tops of the mountains in this range are covered with snow for half the year, and perhaps also because of the white limestone in it's upper ridge.

Dt 1:7
turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all the places near there, in the Arabah, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the seashore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

Dt 3:25
Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.”

Dt 11:24
Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall be your border.

Jsh 1:4
From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.

Jsh 9:1
It happened, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it

Jsh 11:17
from Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon. He took all their kings, struck them, and put them to death.

Jsh 12:7
These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir. Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;

Jsh 13:5,6
5 and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath;
6 all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians; them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only allocate it to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.

Jdg 3:3
namely, the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.

Jdg 9:15
“The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’

1Kg 4:33
He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.

1Kg 5:6,9,14
6 Now therefore command that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon. My servants shall be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you shall say. For you know that there is not among us any who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”
9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you shall receive them. You shall accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.”
14 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 men subject to forced labor.

1Kg 7:2
For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was one hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.

1Kg 9:19
and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

1Kg 10:17,21
17 he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
21 All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

2Kg 14:9
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 your daughter to my son as wife. Then wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.

2Kg 19:23
By your messengers you have defied the Lord, and have said, ‘With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars, and its choice fir trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field.

2Ch 2:8,16
8 “Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon: and behold, my servants shall be with your servants,
16 and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you shall need; and we will bring it to you in floats by sea to Joppa; and you shall carry it up to Jerusalem.”

Ezr 3:7
They gave money also to the masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, to them of Sidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.

Ps 29:5,6
5 The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars.
    Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
6 He makes them also to skip like a calf;
    Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.

Ps 72:16
There shall be abundance of grain throughout the land.
    Its fruit sways like Lebanon.
Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.

Ps 92:12
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree.
    He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Ps 104:16
Yahweh’s trees are well watered,
    the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;

SS 3:9
King Solomon made himself a carriage
    of the wood of Lebanon.

SS 4:8,11,15
8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,
    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.
11 Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb.
    Honey and milk are under your tongue.
The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
15 a fountain of gardens,
a well of living waters,
    flowing streams from Lebanon.

SS 5:15
His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold.
    His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

SS 7:4
Your neck is like an ivory tower.
    Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.

Is 2:13
For all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up,
for all the oaks of Bashan,

Is 10:34
He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

Is 14:8
Yes, the fir trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us.”

Is 29:17
Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?

Is 33:9
The land mourns and languishes.
    Lebanon is confounded and withers away.
Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.

Is 35:2
It will blossom abundantly,
    and rejoice even with joy and singing.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,
    the excellence of Carmel and Sharon.
They will see Yahweh’s glory,
    the excellence of our God.*

Is 37:24
By your servants, have you defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.

Is 40:16
Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,
    nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.

Is 60:13
“The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the fir tree, the pine, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.

Jr 18:14
Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? or shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?

Jr 22:6,20,23
6 For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, and the head of Lebanon; yet surely I will make you a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.
20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed.
23 Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail!

Ezk 17:3
and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:

Ezk 27:5
They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; they have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

Ezk 31:3,15,16
3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.
15 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.

Hs 14:5-7
5 I will be like the dew to Israel.
    He will blossom like the lily,
and send down his roots like Lebanon.
6 His branches will spread,
    and his beauty will be like the olive tree,
and his fragrance like Lebanon.
7 Men will dwell in his shade.
    They will revive like the grain,
and blossom like the vine.
    Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.

Nah 1:4
He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.

Hbk 2:17
For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.

Zc 10:10
I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt,
    and gather them out of Assyria;
and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon;
    and there won’t be room enough for them.

Zc 11:1
Open your doors, Lebanon,
    that the fire may devour your cedars.

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