1 Kings 5:9
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My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you shall receive them; and you shall accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
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Lebanon supplied the famed cedar and cypress timber, while Tyre, the Phoenician coastal kingdom ruled by Hiram, organized its transport. Logs were floated by sea along the Great Sea (the Mediterranean) to a landing near Gebal, a Phoenician port, for Solomon’s temple-building project.
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1 Kings 5:9 mentions Gebal, Great Sea, Lebanon and Tyre.
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