And he made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and cedars as common as the sycamores, which grow in the plains.
And running before, he climbed up into a sycamore tree, that he might see him; for he was to pass that way.
And Amos answered and said to Amasias: I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet: but I am a herdsman plucking wild figs.
The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with square stones: they have cut down the sycamores, but we will change them for cedars.
And all the vessels of the king's table were of gold; and the vessels of the house of the forest of Libanus were of the purest gold. For no account was made of silver in those days.
And over the oliveyards and the fig-groves, which were in the plains, was Balanam, a Gederite. And over the oil cellars, Joas.