Now therefore command that cedar trees be cut for me out of Lebanon. My servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you say. For you know that there is nobody among us who knows how to cut timber like the SIDONians."

and cedar trees without number, for the SIDONians and the people of Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David.

They also gave money to the masons, and to the carpenters. They also gave food, drink, and oil to the people of SIDON and Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus King of Persia.