2 Chronicles - Map Collection
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Solomon’s Cedar Rafts: Timber from Lebanon to Jerusalem
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Floating a Forest to Build God’s Temple
Solomon needed enormous amounts of cedar and cypress wood to build the Temple in Jerusalem. This map follows the remarkable journey of those logs as they were cut in Lebanon, tied into rafts, floated down the Mediterranean coast, and hauled inland to the Holy City.
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How Solomon Brought Cedar from Lebanon
When Solomon began building the Temple, he turned to King Hiram of Tyre for help. The forests of Lebanon were famous throughout the ancient world for their towering cedar trees, prized for their strength, beauty, and resistance to decay. Solomon’s workers and Hiram’s lumberjacks cut the timber in the mountains of Lebanon and prepared it for transport.
The geography of the region made an impressive delivery system possible. Instead of hauling massive logs over rugged mountain terrain, workers tied the timber into large rafts and floated them south along the Mediterranean coast. The rafts traveled to a port in Israel, where the wood was unloaded and carried inland through the hill country toward Jerusalem.
This map helps visualize one of the largest construction projects in Israel’s history. The Temple was built in Jerusalem, but its materials came from distant lands and required cooperation between kingdoms. The route from Lebanon to Jerusalem shows the scale of Solomon’s vision and the international effort involved in building the house of worship that would become the spiritual center of Israel.
