לְבָנוֹן

He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the foothills, in the Negev, and along the seacoast to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great River Euphrates.

He will clear the forest thickets with an axe,and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.

But the thornbush replied,‘If you really are anointing me as king over you,come and find refuge in my shade.But if not, may fire come out of the thornbushand consume the cedars of Lebanon.’

Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)—