So the king made silver in Jerusalem as abundant as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore trees in the lowlands of the Shephelah.
Baal-Hanan the Gederite was over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the Shephelah, and Joash was over the stores of oil.
Even all the drinking vessels of King Solomon were gold, and all the vessels in the House of the Forest of Lebanon were fine gold. And silver was not thought to be valuable in the days of Solomon.
He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore trees with frost.
“The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.”
But Amos answered Amaziah: “I am no prophet, and I am no prophet’s disciple. Rather, I am a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore trees.
So he ran ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Him, for He was to pass that way.