Forest

And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the Forest of Hareth.

• Cedar

He built also the house of the Forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the Forest of Lebanon.

And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

• Sennacherib
• Ambition
• Sennacherib

By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the Forest of his Carmel.

And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the Forest of Lebanon.

And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's Forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.

For every beast of the Forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the Forest do creep forth.

For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the Forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

And shall consume the glory of his Forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.

And the rest of the trees of his Forest shall be few, that a child may write them.

• Iron

And he shall cut down the thickets of the Forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

The burden upon Arabia. In the Forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.

And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the Forest.

Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a Forest?

• Revivals

Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a Forest.

When it shall hail, coming down on the Forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the Forest of his Carmel.

He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the Forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.

Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O Forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.

All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the Forest.

• Lion

Wherefore a lion out of the Forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

• Family
• Exemplified
• Power

For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the Forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the Forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.

Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a Forest.

They shall cut down her Forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the Forest?

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the Forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the Forest of the south field;

And say to the Forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a Forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

Will a lion roar in the Forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?

Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the Forest.

• Righteous

And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the Forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.

Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the Forest of the vintage is come down.