12 When he received the portions out of the priests’ hands, as he stood by the hearth of the altar, with his kindred like a garland around him, he was like a young cedar in Lebanon surrounded by the trunks of palm trees. (WEB)
Sirach 50:12
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Hosea 14:5–7
5 I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon. 6 His shoots will sprout, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon. 7 They will return and dwell in his shade; th…
Ezekiel 31:7–9
7 It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its limbs, for its roots extended to abundant waters. 8 The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare with its branches, nor the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in th…
Sirach 24:12–14
12 I took root in a people that was honored, even in the portion of the Lord’s own inheritance. (WEB) 13 I was exalted like a cedar in Lebanon, And like a cypress tree on the mountains of Hermon. (WEB) 14 I was exalted like a palm tree on the sea shore, like rose bushes in Jericho,… (WEB)
Sirach 50:4–6
4 He planned to save his people from ruin, and fortified the city against siege. (WEB) 5 How glorious he was when the people gathered around him as he came out of the house of the veil! (WEB) 6 He was like the morning star among clouds, like the full moon, (WEB)
Psalms 80:9–11
9 You cleared the ground for it, and it took root and filled the land. 10 The mountains were covered by its shade, and the mighty cedars with its branches. 11 It sent out its branches to the Sea, and its shoots toward the River.
Numbers 24:5–7
5 How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel! 6 They spread out like palm groves, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted, like cedars beside the waters. 7 Water will flow from his buckets, and his seed will have abundant water…
Ezekiel 31:3–5
3 Look at Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches that shaded the forest. It towered on high; its top was among the clouds. 4 The waters made it grow; the deep springs made it tall, directing their streams all around its base and sending their channel…
Testament of Naphtali 2:3–5
3 And we all of us ran together, and Levi laid hold of the sun, and Judah outstripped the others and seized the moon, and they were both of them lifted up with them. (T12) 4 And when Levi became as a sun, lo, a certain young man gave to him twelve branches of palm; and… (T12) 5 … (T12)
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