Cedar
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Large trees indigenous to Lebanon. Their wood was considered very valuable (e.g., 1 Kgs 10:27). Cedars were used to build the temple in Jerusalem (1 Kgs 5:6, 8), as well as the palaces of David and Solomon (2 Sam 5:11; 1 Kgs 7:2).