“They made
All your planks
Of fir trees
From Senir.
To make a mast
For you,
They took a cedar
From Lebanon.
They made your oars
From oaks
Of Bashan.
They made your deck
Of pines
From the coasts of Cyprus,
Inlaid with ivory.”
The people of Tyre got their wood for their ships from a variety of places. The planks for their ships came from the fir trees of Senir or Mount Hermon, between Syria and Lebanon. Of course, the cedar used for the mast of the ships came from Lebanon, as did all good cedar. The oars for the ships came from the oaks of Bashan, on the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee. Their decks were made of pine from the island of Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea. Somehow their decks of pine were inlaid with ivory.
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