and cedar logs without number—for the Sidonians and Tyrians brought great quantities of cedar to David.
King Hiram of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar trees and carpenters and masons who built David a house.
Solomon sent word to King Huram of Tyre, “Once you dealt with my father David and sent him cedar to build himself a house to live in.
So they gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the Sidonians and the Tyrians to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from King Cyrus of Persia.
Like palm groves that stretch far away, like gardens beside a river, like aloes that the Lord has planted, like cedar trees beside the waters.