And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build him a house to dwell therein, even so deal with me.
They gave money also to the masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, to those of Sidon, and to those of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the permission that they had from Cyrus king of Persia.
As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of aloes which the LORD has planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.