Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars? By the careful study of them, we find a wonderful revelation of the Person and work of the Holy Spirit. 21-30 He will be spared to them--Spiritual wealth of the paragraph--Adolphe Monod's exposition--Charles Simeon's testimony--The equilibrium and its secret--The intermediate bliss--He longs for their full consistency--The "gift" of suffering Ver. King James Version (KJV). 9Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. The Christian's Peace and the Christian's Consistency. -- Job xxxiii. Plans. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, [then] come [and] put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon. Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars. This name is also used as the basis of other names, so we begin our study with this. To Felix, Bishop of Messana. They had some conception of a superior order of beings, between men and God, whom the Greeks generally termed demons, (knowing ones,) and the Romans, genii. Cancel. Cedar. The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;Psalm 104:16 Parallel Commentaries, Lessons from NatureThis prejudice against the beauties of the material universe reminds me of the lingering love to Judaism, which acted like a spell upon Peter of old. 10All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? “Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.” And it will be against all the cedars of Lebanon that are lofty and lifted up, Against all the oaks of Bashan, King James Version. Bible Language English. -- Job xxvi. 19); or, PHILIPPIANS i. Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants, 2 Chronicles 2:16 | View whole chapter | See verse in context 11The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 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]. 4:8 (KJV) At least twenty-five different names are used in the Old and New Testaments in speaking of the Holy Spirit. Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. DAVID, certainly, was not a melancholy man. The necessity and usefulness of this doctrine. The Spirit. 13. However, God's glory in creation appears in various degrees and ways. "By His Spirit He hath garnished the heavens; His hand hath formed the crooked serpent." We have seen that the work of the Holy Spirit consists in leading all creation to its destiny, the final purpose of which is the glory of God. In Ezekial 31:3 we read, ‘Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon With beautiful branches and forest shade, And very high, And its top was among the clouds. 2Ki 19:23 - 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, H3844 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. Read. From the citadel of the Head let nothing divide us, lest, if we refuse to be His members. The trees reminded early American settlers of the famed Biblical cedar forests that thrived across Mount Lebanon in what is now the Mediterranean area.