They will see Yahweh's glory, the excellence of our God. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. This formation appears on all the highest summits, where in most cases it is nearly horizontal, and in places attains a thickness of 5,000 ft. Throughout this district the mountain recesses are more or less wooded. In roughly parallel courses Nahr el-`Awleh and Nahr Damur descend to the sea between Sidon and Beyrout, and Nahr Beyrout just North of the city. Copyright 2020. Joshua 13:5 and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath; Joshua 13:6 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV), 2 Chronicles 2:8Send 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,(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV), 2 Chronicles 2:16and 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. As one looks down into this valley, Ba`albek appears at the base of Anti-Lebanon, only 20 miles away. Anti-Lebanon:Anti-Libanus (Judith 1:7; Joshua 13:5 Songs 7:4) is an extension northward of the great mountain system facing on the East the great geological fault most conspicuous in the valley of the Jordan (see JORDAN, VALLEY OF), extending from the Gulf of Akabah to Antioch on the Orontes River. The light color of the upper limestone may, however, form a sufficient reason for the name. The ancient inhabitants were Giblites and Hivites (Joshua 13:5; Judges 3:3). A Song for the Sabbath. M '(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV), 1 Kings 4:33He 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV), Psalms 29:5The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars. In the Septuagint, however, the article is generally present both in prose and poetry.2. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV), Hosea 14:5I will be like the dew to Israel. Solomon sent 30,000 workers to Lebanon, 10,000 per month, to obtain the cedar for the Temple (1 Kings 5:1314). For more detailed information see Robinson, BRP2, II, 435;, 493; G. A. Smith, HGHL, 45;; Burton and Drake, Unexplored Syria; Benjamin W. Bacon, and G.F. Wright in Records of the Past, 1906, V, 67-83, 195-204; Baedeker-Socin, Palestine.George Frederick Wright, (mighdal ha-lebhanon): (Songs 7:4)): The designation "which looketh toward Damascus" compels us to identify it with some portion of, or something in, the eastern range of "Lebanon, toward the sun-rising" (Joshua 13:5). The average height of this range is from 6,000 to 8,000 feet; the peak of Jebel Mukhmel is about 10,200 feet, and the Sannin about 9,000. 2 Chronicles 25:18 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 your daughter to my son as wife: and there passed by a wild animal that was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle. They remained a united Israel under King David and Solomon, but under Davids grandson King Rehoboam, Israel divided, and the ten Northern tribes formed their own country, named Israel. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Ezekiel 31:16 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. Toward the West, the blue waters of the Mediterranean, only 25 miles distant as the crow flies, show themselves at intervals through the gorges cut by the rapid streams which have furrowed the western flanks of the mountain (Songs 4:15); 3,500 ft. beneath is the amphitheater many square miles in area, filled with the terminal moraine from which the Qadisha river emerges, and on which the grove of cedars (compare 1 Kings 4:33 Psalm 92:12 Hosea 14:5) appears as a green spot in the center.