Cedar and tall-tree imagery uses the height, strength, fragrance, and majesty of cedars to describe flourishing righteousness, royal greatness, proud exaltation, or judgment on lofty powers.
Cedar and tall-tree imagery uses the height, strength, fragrance, and majesty of cedars to describe flourishing righteousness, royal greatness, proud exaltation, or judgment on lofty powers.
A tree-height motif in which cedars, especially the cedars of Lebanon, can signify durable beauty, temple splendour, human or imperial greatness, covenant blessing, or the humbling of what is high and lifted up before God.
These examples show how Cedar and Tall-Tree Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet
Cedar appears in a cleansing rite, joining durable wood with ritual purification imagery.
from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon
The cedar marks the highest and most majestic end of Solomon’s creation knowledge.
cedar of the house within
Cedar paneling contributes beauty, permanence, and ordered splendour to the temple setting.
grow like a cedar in Lebanon
The cedar images righteous flourishing as strong, upright, and enduring under God.
the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted
The cedars display creaturely abundance sustained by the LORD himself.
excellent as the cedars
Cedar imagery communicates nobility, stately beauty, and impressive excellence.
upon all the cedars of Lebanon
Lofty cedars become an image of pride that the day of the LORD will humble.
cropped off the top of his young twigs
The cedar image figures royal dynasty, political power, and covenant judgment.
the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon
Assyria is compared to a magnificent cedar whose greatness is later brought down.
for the cedar is fallen
The fallen cedar pictures the collapse of powerful leaders and structures.
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