Evergreen Trees

By Admin February 7, 2018 Uncategorized

 

Evergreen is a plant that has leaves throughout the year, always green.

  • This is true even if the plant retains its foliage only in warm climates, and contrasts with deciduous plants, which completely lose their foliage during the winter or dry season.
  • There are many different kinds of evergreen plants, both trees and shrubs.
  • Deciduous trees shed their leaves, usually as an adaptation to a cold or dry/wet season.
  • Evergreen trees do lose leaves, but each tree loses its leaves gradually and not all at once. 

Evergreens include:

  • Ash
  • Elm
  • Myrtle 
  • Oak (Terebinth) 600 species
    • Chestnut
    • Beech
    • Holly
  • Pinaceae (pine family) aka Coniferous Conifers (Most species of )
    •  is a Latin word, a compound of conus (cone) and ferre (to bear),
    • meaning “the one that bears (a) cone(s)”.  
    • Cedar Tree,
    • Fir Tree,
    • Hemlocks,
    • Pines and 
    • Spruces. 
    • Cypress  (Sub-Family)
      • Junipers 
      • Redwood

To the ancient Celts, certain trees, especially

held special significance[155] as providing fuel, building materials, ornamental objects and weaponry.

 

Crepe myrtles

  • are chiefly known for their colorful and long-lasting flowers which occur in summer.
  • Most species of Lagerstroemia have sinewy, fluted stems and branche s with a mottled appearance that arises from having bark that sheds throughout the year.

The leaves are opposite and simple,

  • with entire margins,
  • and vary from 5–20 cm (2–8 in).
  • While all species are woody in nature,
  • they can range in height from over 30 m (100 ft) to under 30 cm (1 ft);
  • most, however, are small to medium multiple-trunked trees and shrubs.
  • The leaves of temperate species provide autumn color.

Flowers are borne in summer and autumn in panicles of crinkled flowers with a crepe-like texture.

  • Colors vary from deep purple to red to white, with almost every shade in between.
  • Although no blue-flowered varieties exist, the flowers trend toward the blue end of the spectrum with no orange or yellow except in stamens and pistils.

The fruit is a capsule,

  • green and succulent at first,
  • then ripening to dark brown or black dryness.
  • It splits along six or seven lines, producing teeth much like those of the calyx, and releases numerous, small, winged seeds.
  • In their respective climates, both subtropical and tropical species are common in domestic and commercial landscapes.

The timber of some species has been used to

  • manufacture bridges,
  • furniture,
  • and railway sleepers,[2]
  • but in Vietnam’s Cat Tien National Park,
    • the dominant stands of Lagerstroemia calyculata
    • in secondary forest are thought to have survived (after episodes of logging) due to the low quality of wood.[3]

Lagerstroemia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera (moth and butterfly) species including Endoclita malabaricus.

The leaves of L. parviflora are fed on by the Antheraea paphia moth which produces the tassar silk, a form of wild silk of commercial importance in India.[4]

[h1918]  הֲדַס hădaç, had-as’;  6 in 6 Myrtle (tree)

Nehemiah 8:

15 And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying,

Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches,

and myrtle[H1918] branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.

Isaiah 41:

19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle[H1918] and the oil tree;

I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:

Isaiah 55:

13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree,

and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree[H1918] and it shall be to the LORD for a name,

for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

Zechariah 1:

8 I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse,

and he stood among the myrtle trees[H1918] that were in the bottom;

and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white. …

10 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees[H1918] answered and said,

These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.

11 And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees[H1918] and said,

We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest. 

 Genesis 36 :  The Generations of Esau

1 Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.  2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite,

Adah = “ornament”  

Lamech, who was the 4th generation descendant of Cain, his first wife was also named “Adah”.  

These are the only 2 in the bible with this name and there is an obvious parallel between the 2.

  • who gave birth to Jabal and Jubal
    • And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
    • And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.  

Elon = “terebinth, mighty”[H356 ]

  • oak-grove; 
  • a town inherited by the
    • Tribe of Dan (Joshua 19) 

The Oak of the Magicians

  • “Harry” = Esau / Edom
  • Elah, the name of an Edomite Chief
  • Valley of Elah, where David killed Goliath

 

Genesis 36 :  The Generations of Esau

1 Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.  2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite,

Adah = “ornament”  

  • the 1st of the 2 wives of Lamech (grandson of Cain)

The Coming Destruction

17Gather up your wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress. 18For thus said the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so. 19Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it. 20My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. 21For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered. 22Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons. 

23O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walks to direct his steps. 24O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing. 25Pour out your fury on the heathen that know you not, and on the families that call not on your name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

Uz = “wooded”   עוּץ ʻÛwts, oots; 8 in 8 

  • An Edomite
  • apparently from H5779; 
    • עוּץ ʻûwts, oots;
    • a primitive root; to consult:
    • —take advice ((counsel) together).

Bohemian Grove is a 2,700-acre (1,100 ha) campground located at 20601 Bohemian Avenue, in Monte Rio, California, belonging to a private San Francisco-based gentlemen’s clubknown as the Bohemian Club. In mid-July each year, Bohemian Grove hosts a more than two-week encampment of some of the most prominent men in the world.[1][2]

The main encampment area consists of 160 acres (65 ha) of old-growth redwood trees over 1,000 years old, with some trees exceeding 300 feet (91 m) in height.[19]

Sequoia sempervirens/sɪˈkɔɪ.ə sɛmpərˈvaɪrənz/[2] is the sole living species of the genus Sequoia in the cypress family Cupressaceae (formerly treated in Taxodiaceae). Common names include coast redwood, coastal redwood[3] and California redwood.[4]It is an evergreen, long-lived, monoecious tree living 1,200–1,800 years or more.[5] This species includes the tallest living trees on Earth, reaching up to 379 feet (115.5 m) in height (without the roots) and up to 29.2 feet (8.9 m) in diameter at breast height (dbh). These trees are also among the oldest living things on Earth. Before commercial logging and clearing began by the 1850s, this massive tree occurred naturally in an estimated 2,100,000 acres (8,500 km2) along much of coastal California (excluding southern California where rainfall is not sufficient) and the southwestern corner of coastal Oregon within the United States.

The Bohemian Club’s all-male membership and guest list includes artists, particularly musicians, as well as many prominent business leaders, government officials, including former U.S. presidents, senior media executives, and people of power.[3][4] Members may invite guests to the Grove. Guests may be invited to the Grove for either the “Spring Jinks” in June or the main July encampment. Bohemian Club members can schedule private day-use events at the Grove any time it is not being used for Club-wide purposes, and they are allowed at these times to bring spouses, family, and friends, although female and minor guests must be off the property by 9 or 10 p.m. (21:00 or 22:00 local time).[5]

After 40 years of membership, the men earn “Old Guard” status, giving them reserved seating at the Grove’s daily talks, as well as other perquisites. Former U.S. president Herbert Hoover was inducted into the Old Guard on March 19, 1953; he had joined the club exactly 40 years previously.[6] Redwood branches from the Grove were flown to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, where they were used to decorate a banquet room for the celebration. In his acceptance speech, Hoover compared the honor of the “Old Guard” status to his frequent role as veteran counselor to later presidents.[7]

The Club motto is “Weaving Spiders Come Not Here”, which implies that outside concerns and business deals (networking) are to be left outside. When gathered in groups, Bohemians usually adhere to the injunction, although discussion of business often occurs between pairs of members.[2] Important political and business deals have been developed at the Grove.[5] The Grove is particularly famous for a Manhattan Project planning meeting that took place there in September 1942, which subsequently led to the atomic bomb. Those attending this meeting included Ernest Lawrence, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the S-1 Executive Committee heads, such as the presidents of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, along with representatives of Standard Oil and General Electric as well as various military officials. At the time, Oppenheimer was not an S-1 member, although Lawrence and Oppenheimer hosted the meeting.[8] Grove members take particular pride in this event and often relate the story to new attendees.[2] However, other behavior at this famous campground has led to numerous exaggerations and parody in popular culture. One such documented example was former president, Richard Nixon’s comments from a May 13, 1971 recording that: “The Bohemian Grove (an elite, secrecy-filled gathering outside San Francisco), which I attend from time to time. It is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine.

 Dan is lions’ whelp, he shall leap from Bashan…

1Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.  Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O you oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down. 3There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.

Yale mascot : Dan

Boston 

  • a card game resembling solo whist. Whist is a classic English trick-taking card game which was widely played in the 18th and 19th centuries. Although the rules are simple, there is scope for scientific play..  52 cards
  • a variation of the waltz or of the two-step.

 

Harvard : Cambridge, Mass (in Boston, Celtics)

Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), two of the world’s most prestigious universities, are in Cambridge,[5]Kendall Square in Cambridge has been called “the most innovative square mile on the planet”, in reference to the high concentration of entrepreneurialstart-ups and quality of innovation that have emerged there since 2010.[8][9]

Some of the most renowned and highly ranked universities in the world are located near Boston.[164][165] Three universities with a major presence in the city, Harvard, MIT, and Tufts, are located just outside of Boston in the cities of Cambridge and Somerville, known as the Brainpower Triangle

 

OAK | Terebinth Tree H424;אֵלָה ʼêlâh, ay-law’; 13 in 12

  • The Terebinth,
  • elm, oak,
  • teil-tree.

Judges 6:The Call of Gideon

11 And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak [H424] which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. . 12And the angel of the LORD appeared to him, and said to him, The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor. 13And Gideon said to him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD has forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. 14And the LORD looked on him, and said, Go in this your might, and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent you?15And he said to him, Oh my Lord, with which shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house. 16And the LORD said to him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall smite the Midianites as one man.  17And he said to him, If now I have found grace in your sight, then show me a sign that you talk with me. 18Depart not hence, I pray you, until I come to you, and bring forth my present, and set it before you. And he said, I will tarry until you come again.

19 And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, [H424] and presented it.

20And the angel of God said to him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so. 21Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight.22And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O LORD God! for because I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face. 23And the LORD said to him, Peace be to you; fear not: you shall not die.

Gideon Destroys Baal’s Altar

24Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD, and called it Jehovahshalom: to this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. 25And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said to him, Take your father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the grove that is by it: 26And build an altar to the LORD your God on the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which you shall cut down. 27Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said to him: and so it was, because he feared his father’s household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night. 28And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered on the altar that was built. 29And they said one to another, Who has done this thing? And when they inquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing. 30Then the men of the city said to Joash, Bring out your son, that he may die: because he has cast down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the grove that was by it. 31And Joash said to all that stood against him, Will you plead for Baal? will you save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because one has cast down his altar. 32Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he has thrown down his altar.

Ophrah = “fawn”   עׇפְרָה ʻOphrâh, of-raw’;

  • female fawn;
  • Ophrah,
  • the name of an Israelite and of two places in Palestine:—Ophrah.
  • feminine of H6082;עֹפֶר ʻôpher, o’-fer;
    • a fawn (from the dusty color):—young deer, goat or gazelle
    • from H6080;   עָפַר ʻâphar, aw-far’; a primitive root;  1 in 1
      • meaning either to be gray or perhaps rather to pulverize; 
      • to be dust:—cast (dust).
      • [2Sa 16:13 KJV] 13 And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hill’s side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast[H6080] dust. 

1 Kings 16 : Pekah Reigns in Israel

6 So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah[H425] his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kings 15: Pekah Reigns in Israel

30 And Hoshea the son of Elah [H425] made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

Pekah = “open-eyed” 18th King of Israel 

Genesis 35 : Jacob Returns to Bethel (“House of God”)

5And they journeyed: and the terror of God was on the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. 6So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.7And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared to him, when he fled from the face of his brother. 8But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: [H437] and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.  9And God appeared to Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him. 10And God said to him, Your name is Jacob: your name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be your name: and he called his name Israel. 

Luz = “almond tree”  לוּז Lûwz, looz;

  • the early name of Bethel and probably the name of the town in close proximity to the actual location of the altar and pillar of Jacob

  • the name of a town in the land of the Hittites; site unknown

probably from H3869 (as growing there);  

לוּז lûwz, looz; probably of foreign origin; some kind of nut-tree, perhaps the almond:—hazel

(only other use) Genesis 30 : After Joseph Born and asks to Leave

37And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel [H3869] and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. 38And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. 39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. 40And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not to Laban’s cattle. 41And it came to pass, whenever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods. 42But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s. 43And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.

  • Before meeting Esau

POPLARS לִבְנֶה libneh, lib-neh’; from H3835;   

  • some sort of whitish tree, perhaps the storax:—poplar.
  • (Zechariah 6 : 4 Chariots 2 Brass Mtns (speckled spotted) 

Zechariah 2 : The Doomed Flock

1Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars. 2Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O you oaks [H437] of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down. 3There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled. 4Thus said the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter; 5Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not. 6For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, said the LORD: but, see, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbor’s hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them. 7And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took to me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock. 8Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me. 9Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dies, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.

Thirty Pieces of Silver (Matthew 26:14-16; Matthew 27:3-10; Mark 14:10-11)

10And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.11And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited on me knew that it was the word of the LORD. 12And I said to them, If you think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. 13And the LORD said to me, Cast it to the potter: a goodly price that I was priced at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD. 14Then I cut asunder my other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. 15And the LORD said to me, Take to you yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd. 16For, see, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that stands still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces. 17Woe to the idol shepherd that leaves the flock! the sword shall be on his arm, and on his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened  

 

[Rev 9:21 KJV] 21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,[G5331] nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

Revelation 18 :  Babylon is Fallen

1And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 3For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues. 5For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. 6Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double to her double according to her works: in the cup which she has filled fill to her double. 7How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she said in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. 8Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judges her.

Lament over Babylon

9And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall mourn her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, 10Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is your judgment come. 11And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buys their merchandise any more: 12The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, 13And cinnamon, and odors, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. 14And the fruits that your soul lusted after are departed from you, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from you, and you shall find them no more at all. 15The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, 16And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! 17For in one hour so great riches is come to nothing. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, 18And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like to this great city!19And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

The Saints Rejoice

20Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; for God has avenged you on her. 21And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. 22And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in you; and no craftsman, of whatever craft he be, shall be found any more in you; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in you; 23And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in you; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in you: for your merchants were the great men of the earth; for by your sorceries [G5331] were all nations deceived. 24And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain on the earth. 

φαρμακεία pharmakeía, far-mak-i’-ah; from G5332;

  • medication (“pharmacy”),
  • i.e. (by extension)
    • magic
  • (literally or figuratively):
    • —sorcery, witchcraft. 
    • magical arts,
    • often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it

 

1 Kings 6: The Chambers of Solomon’s Temple

9 So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.[H730] 10 And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.[H730]
1 Kings 9 : Solomon’s Temple’s Interior

15And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir. 16And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place. 17And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long. 18And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. 19And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD. 20And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar. 21So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. 22And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold. 

 

Jeremiah 22 : A Warning for Judah’s Kings

1Thus said the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word, 2And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sit on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people that enter in by these gates:3Thus said the LORD; Execute you judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place. 4For if you do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people. 5But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, said the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

A Warning about the Palace

6For thus said the LORD to the king’s house of Judah; You are Gilead to me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make you a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited. 7And I will prepare destroyers against you, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire. 8And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has the LORD done thus to this great city? 9Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

A Warning about Jehoahaz

10Weep you not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goes away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country. 11For thus said the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more: 12But he shall die in the place where they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.

A Warning about Jehoiakim

13Woe to him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and gives him not for his work; 14That said, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cuts him out windows; and it is paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. 15Shall you reign, because you close yourself in cedar? did not your father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? 16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? said the LORD. 17But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. 18Therefore thus said the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory! 19He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem. 20Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all your lovers are destroyed. 21I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your manner from your youth, that you obeyed not my voice. 22The wind shall eat up all your pastors, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shall you be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness. 23O inhabitant of Lebanon, that make your nest in the cedars, how gracious shall you be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail!

Ezekial 17 : The Parable of Two Eagles and a Vine (Matthew 13:24-30)

1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;3And say, Thus said the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, long winged, full of feathers, which had divers colors, came to Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar: 4He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants. 5He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree. 6And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

7There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation. 8It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine. 9Say you, Thus said the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof. 10Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.

The Parable Explained

11Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 12Say now to the rebellious house, Know you not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and has taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon; 13And has taken of the king’s seed, and made a covenant with him, and has taken an oath of him: he has also taken the mighty of the land: 14That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand. 15But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that does such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered? 16As I live, said the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwells that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the middle of Babylon he shall die. 17Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:18Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, see, he had given his hand, and has done all these things, he shall not escape. 19Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; As I live, surely my oath that he has despised, and my covenant that he has broken, even it will I recompense on his own head. 20And I will spread my net on him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me. 21And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and you shall know that I the LORD have spoken it.

22Thus said the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it on an high mountain and eminent: 23In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell. 24And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.

John 23 :  The Crucifixion (Psalm 69:1-36; Matthew 27:32-44; Mark 15:21-32; John 19:16-27)

26And as they led him away, they laid hold on one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus. 27And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. 28But Jesus turning to them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. 29For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts which never gave suck. 30Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. 31For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?

Ezekial 31 : Egypt will Fall Like Assyria

1And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2Son of man, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom are you like in your greatness? 3Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.  4The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent her little rivers to all the trees of the field. 5Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth. 6All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelled all great nations. 7Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters. 8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like to him in his beauty. 9I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him. 10Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Because you have lifted up yourself in height, and he has shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; 11I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness. 12And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him. 13On his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be on his branches: 14To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the middle of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit. 15Thus said the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. 16I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth. 17They also went down into hell with him to them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelled under his shadow in the middle of the heathen.  18To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shall you be brought down with the trees of Eden to the nether parts of the earth: you shall lie in the middle of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, said the Lord GOD.

Amos 2 :  The Ingratitude of Israel

9Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.  10Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

Zechariah 11 :  The Doomed Flock

1Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.  Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O you oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down. 3There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled. 4Thus said the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter; 5Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not. 6For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, said the LORD: but, see, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbor’s hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them. 7And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took to me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock. 8Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me. 9Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dies, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.

Thirty Pieces of Silver   (Matthew 26:14-16; Matthew 27:3-10; Mark 14:10-11)

10And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.11And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited on me knew that it was the word of the LORD. 12And I said to them, If you think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. 13And the LORD said to me, Cast it to the potter: a goodly price that I was priced at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD. 14Then I cut asunder my other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. 15And the LORD said to me, Take to you yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd. 16For, see, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that stands still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces. 17Woe to the idol shepherd that leaves the flock! the sword shall be on his arm, and on his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

Job 40 : Behold Behemoth

15Behold now behemoth, which I made with you; he eats grass as an ox. 16See now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. 17He moves his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. 18His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. 19He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach to him. 20Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. 21He lies under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. 22The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. 23Behold, he drinks up a river, and hastens not: he trusts that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. 24He takes it with his eyes: his nose pierces through snares.

from H729;  אָרַז ʼâraz, aw-raz’;  1 in 1 

  • a primitive root; to be firm; 

Ezekial 24 : Prophecy Against Tyre

  • 24These were your merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among your merchandise.

JUNIPER 

  • yellow flowers and bitter root which the poor would eat
  • This species is native to the Mediterranean in southern Europe, southwest Asia and northwest Africa,[7] where it is found in sunny sites, usually on dry, sandy soils.
  • S. junceum is a vigorous, deciduous shrub growing to 2–4 m (7–13 ft) tall, rarely 5 m (16 ft),
    • with main stems up to 5 cm (2 in) thick, rarely 10 cm (4 in).
  • It has thick, somewhat succulent grey-green rush-like shoots with very sparse small deciduous leaves 1 to 3 cm long and up to 4 mm broad.
  • The leaves are of little importance to the plant, with much of the photosynthesis occurring in the green shoots (a water-conserving strategy in its dry climate).
  • The leaves fall away early.[8] In late spring and summer shoots are covered in profuse fragrant yellow pea-like flowers 1 to 2 cm across.
  • In late summer, the legumes (seed pods) mature black and reach 8–10 cm (3–4 in) long.
  • They burst open, often with an audible crack, spreading seed from the parent plant.
  • The plant is also used as a flavoring, and for its essential oil, known as genet absolute.[7][12]
  • Its fibers have been used for cloth and it produces a yellow dye.[12][13]

 

רֶתֶם rethem, reh’-them; or רֹתֶם rôthem;     juniper (tree).

  • the Spanish broom (from its pole-like stems):—
  • broom-plant, retem
  • a kind of broom plant
  • from H7573;   רָתַם râtham, raw-tham’;  1x  to yoke up (to the pole of a vehicle):—bind. 
    • a primitive root;
    • Micah 1:13 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind[H7573] the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee. 
      • Lachish = “invincible”  
      • a city lying south of Jerusalem on the borders of Simeon and which belonged to the Amorites until conquered by Joshua and allotted to Judah

1 Kings 19: Elijah Flees Jezebel

4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree:[H7574] and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. 5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree,[H7574] behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.

Psalm 120:In My Distress, I Cried to the Lord

4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.[H7574]

Job 30 : 

4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper[H7574] roots for their meat.

MALLOWS  מַלּוּחַ mallûwach, mal-loo’-akh; 21 in 1

  • from H4414; sea-purslain (from its saltness):—mallows.
  • a plant that grows in salt marshes

Isaiah 44:  The Folly of Idolatry

9They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. 10Who has formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? 11Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together. 12The smith with the tongs both works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with the strength of his arms: yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails: he drinks no water, and is faint. 13The carpenter stretches out his rule; he marks it out with a line; he fits it with planes, and he marks it out with the compass, and makes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house. 14 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress [H8645] and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: 

probably from H7329;   רָזָה râzâh, raw-zaw’;  2 in 2

  • a primitive root;
  • to emaciate, i.e. make (become) thin (literally or figuratively):—famish, wax lean.

Isaiah 17 : A Prophecy about Damascus

1The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 2The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. 3The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, said the LORD of hosts. 4And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. [H7329] 5And it shall be as when the harvestman gathers the corn, and reaps the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathers ears in the valley of Rephaim. 6Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, said the LORD God of Israel. 7At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. 

Zephaniah 2 : The Judgment on Moab and Ammon  (Jeremiah 48:1-47)

8I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border. 9Therefore as I live, said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them. 10This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts. 11The LORD will be terrible to them: for he will famish [H7329] all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen. 

he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.

 15Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yes, he kindles it, and bakes bread; yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it a graven image, and falls down thereto. 16He burns part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eats flesh; he roasts roast, and is satisfied: yes, he warms himself, and said, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire: 17And the residue thereof he makes a god, even his graven image: he falls down to it, and worships it, and prays to it, and said, Deliver me; for you are my god.

18They have not known nor understood: for he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand. 19And none considers in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? 20He feeds on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

ACACIA | SHITTIM

What the Tabernacle in wilderness was made of and all the vessels

שִׁטָּה shiṭṭâh, shit-taw’;  

  • meaning the sticks of wood
  • the acacia (from its scourging thorns):—shittah, shittim. See also H1029.

[Deuteronomy 10:3 KJV] 3 And I made an ark of shittim[H7848] wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.

Isaiah 41: God’s Help to Israel

19 I will plant in the wilderness

  • the cedar,
  • the shittah tree,[H7848]

  • [H7848]  שִׁטָּה shiṭṭâh, shit-taw’;  

    • from the same as H7850;

    H7850;   שֹׁטֵט shôṭêṭ, sho-tate’;  1 in 1

    • active participle of an otherwise unused root meaning
      • properly,
        • to pierce;
        • but only as a denominative from H7752
        • to flog;
        • a goad:
        • —scourge.

    • Joshua 23 : Joshua’s Charge to Leaders

      11Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God. 12Else if you do in any wise go back, and join to the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you: 13Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges  H7850 in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you. 

  • and the myrtle,  h1918 wild silk of commercial importance in India.[4]
  • and the oil tree;

I will set in the desert

  • the fir tree,
  • and the pine,

Food and nutrients[edit]

 

Edible seeds of the Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis)

Some species have large seeds, called pine nuts, that are harvested and sold for cooking and baking. They are an essential ingredient of pesto alla genovese.

The soft, moist, white inner bark (cambium) found clinging to the woody outer bark is edible and very high in vitamins A and C. It can be eaten raw in slices as a snack or dried and ground up into a powder for use as an ersatz flour or thickener in stews, soups, and other foods, such as bark bread. Adirondack Indians got their name from the Mohawk Indian word atirú:taks, meaning “tree eaters”.

A tea made by steeping young, green pine needles in boiling water (known as tallstrunt in Sweden) is high in vitamins A and C. In eastern Asia, pine and other conifers are accepted among consumers as a beverage product, and used in teas, as well as wine.[15]

Pine needles from Pinus densiflora were found to contain 30.54 mg/g of proanthocyanidins when extracted with hot water.[16] Comparative to ethanol extraction resulting in 30.11 mg/g, simply extracting in hot water is preferable.

Proanthocyanidins, the nutrient for which wine and grapes are famed and grapeseed extract is used medicinally[17], is in nearly the same quantity in pine needles of P. densiflora as it is in grape juice (35 mg/g). Grapeseed extract from cultivated grapes is 48.9 to 96.7 mg/g.[18]

 

  • and the box tree together: 

 

 

 

 

 

Bulrush

When fish make beds over bulrush, they sweep away the sand, exposing the roots. This dense region of roots provides excellent cover for young fish.

 

 

Mamre = “strength” or “fatness”

  • an Amorite who allied himself with Abram
  • an oak grove on Mamre’s land in Palestine where Abraham dwelt

“The Oak of Mamre” in Hebron

  • Where Abraham dwelt when God Renewed promised with Abraham and he built an Altar (Gen 13:18)
    • when Sodom Destroyed (Gen 14)
    •  when celestial visitors came and rested under tree and when promised a son : Isaac (Gen 18)

Deuteronomy 11 :  A Blessing and a Curse

26Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; 27A blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day: 28And a curse, if you will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known. 29And it shall come to pass, when the LORD your God has brought you in to the land where you go to possess it, that you shall put the blessing on mount Gerizim, and the curse on mount Ebal. 30Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goes down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the desert over against Gilgal, beside the oak [H436] of MAMRE 31For you shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein. 32And you shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.

 

[Jdg 4:11 KJV] 11 Now Heber the Kenite, [which was] of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the oak [H436] of Zaanaim, which [is] by Kedesh.

  • Zaanaim = “Removings”  A city allotted to Naphtali, Dan’s Brother

[1Sa 10:3 KJV] 3 Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the oak [H436] of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:

  • Tabor=”stone-quarry, mound, broken-region” The place of an oak tree which was on the homeward journey of Saul after he had been anointed by Samuel

 

 

 

 

 

A druid (Welsh: derwydd; Old Irish: druí; Scottish Gaelic: draoidh) was a member of the high-ranking professional class in ancient Celtic cultures. While perhaps best remembered as religious leaders, they were also legal authorities, adjudicators, lorekeepers, medical professionals and political advisors. While the druids are reported to have been literate, they are believed to have been prevented by doctrine from recording their knowledge in written form, thus they left no written accounts of themselves. They are however attested in some detail by their contemporaries from other cultures, such as the Romans and the Greeks.

***Oral Law / Talmud

Burning Man in Nevada

Although no extant Romano-Celtic inscription is known to contain the form,[8] the word is cognate with the later insular Celtic words, Old Irish druí ‘druid, sorcerer’, Old Cornish druw, Middle Welsh dryw ‘seer; wren’.[10] Based on all available forms, the hypothetical proto-Celtic word may then be reconstructed as *dru-wid-s (pl. *druwides) meaning “oak-knower”. The two elements go back to the Proto-Indo-European roots *deru-[13] and *weid- “to see”.[14] The sense of “oak-knower” or “oak-seer” is supported by Pliny the Elder,[10] who in his Natural History considered the word to contain the Greek noun drýs (δρύς), “oak-tree”[15] and the Greek suffix -idēs (-ιδης).[16] Both Old Irish druí and Middle Welsh dryw could also refer to the wren,[10] possibly connected with an association of that bird with augury in Irish and Welsh tradition (see also Wren Day).[10][17]

Greek and Roman writers frequently made reference to the druids as practitioners of human sacrifice.[23] According to Caesar, those who had been found guilty of theft or other criminal offences were considered preferable for use as sacrificial victims, but when criminals were in short supply, innocents would be acceptable. A form of sacrifice recorded by Caesar was the burning alive of victims in a large wooden effigy, now often known as a wicker man. A differing account came from the 10th-century Commenta Bernensia, which claimed that sacrifices to the deities Teutates, Esus and Taranis were by drowning, hanging and burning, respectively (see threefold death).

Diodorus Siculus asserts that a sacrifice acceptable to the Celtic gods had to be attended by a druid, for they were the intermediaries between the people and the divinities. He remarked upon the importance of prophets in druidic ritual:

“These men predict the future by observing the flight and calls of birds and by the sacrifice of holy animals: all orders of society are in their power… and in very important matters they prepare a human victim, plunging a dagger into his chest; by observing the way his limbs convulse as he falls and the gushing of his blood, they are able to read the future.”

There is archaeological evidence from western Europe that has been widely used to back up the idea that human sacrifice was performed by the Iron Age Celts. Mass graves found in a ritual context dating from this period have been unearthed in Gaul, at both Gournay-sur-Aronde and Ribemont-sur-Ancre in what was the region of the Belgae chiefdom. The excavator of these sites, Jean-Louis Brunaux, interpreted them as areas of human sacrifice in devotion to a war god,[24][25] although this view was criticized by another archaeologist, Martin Brown, who believed that the corpses might be those of honoured warriors buried in the sanctuary rather than sacrifices.

Alexander Cornelius Polyhistor referred to the druids as philosophers and called their doctrine of the immortality of the soul and reincarnation or metempsychosis “Pythagorean”:

“The Pythagorean doctrine prevails among the Gauls’ teaching that the souls of men are immortal, and that after a fixed number of years they will enter into another body.”

Caesar remarks: “The principal point of their doctrine is that the soul does not die and that after death it passes from one body into another” (see metempsychosis). Caesar wrote:

With regard to their actual course of studies, the main object of all education is, in their opinion, to imbue their scholars with a firm belief in the indestructibility of the human soul, which, according to their belief, merely passes at death from one tenement to another; for by such doctrine alone, they say, which robs death of all its terrors, can the highest form of human courage be developed. Subsidiary to the teachings of this main principle, they hold various lectures and discussions on astronomy, on the extent and geographical distribution of the globe, on the different branches of natural philosophy, and on many problems connected with religion.

— Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico, VI, 13

Diodorus Siculus, writing in 36 BCE, described how the druids followed “the Pythagorean doctrine”, that human souls “are immortal and after a prescribed number of years they commence a new life in a new body.”[29] In 1928, folklorist Donald A. Mackenzie speculated that Buddhist missionaries had been sent by the Indian king Ashoka.[30] Others have invoked common Indo-European parallels.[31] Caesar noted the druidic doctrine of the original ancestor of the tribe, whom he referred to as Dispater, or Father Hades.

Caesar described the druids as being concerned with “divine worship, the due performance of sacrifices, private or public, and the interpretation of ritual questions.” He claimed that they played an important part in Gaulish society, being one of the two respected classes along with the equites (in Rome the name for members of a privileged class above the common people, but also “horsemen”) and that they performed the function of judges

***Dan shall judge his people as one of the 12 tribes of Israel

Modern Druidic groups have their roots in this revival, and some claim that Aubrey was an archdruid in possession of an uninterrupted tradition of Druidic knowledge, though Aubrey, an uninhibited collector of lore and gossip, never entered a corroborating word in his voluminous surviving notebooks.

Toland was fascinated by Aubrey’s Stonehenge theories, and wrote his own book, without crediting Aubrey. He has also been claimed as an Archdruid. The Ancient Druid Order claim that Toland held a gathering of Druids from all over Britain and Ireland in a London tavern, the Appletree, in 1717.

The Ancient Order of Druids itself was founded in 1781, led by Henry Hurle and apparently incorporating Masonic ideas.

Free- Masons :: the first Grand Lodge, the Grand Lodge of London and Westminster was founded in  1717, when 4 existing London Lodges met for a joint dinner.  

They are the modern day Pythagoreans :: Egyptians :: Babylonians

The human head was also revered by the Celts. They believed that the head, not the heart housed the soul of a person. In battle, heads of slain enemy warriors were severed and avidly collected as reported by the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus (60-30BC) “…they cut off the heads of enemies slain in battle and attach them to the necks of their horses. The heads of the most distinguished enemies they embalm  in cedar oil and display with pride to strangers…” This practice is frequently referred to in Celtic mythology. After his first battle, Cuchhulainn had 3 heads attached to his chariot, 9 heads in one hand and 10 in the other. Don’t mess with Cuchhulainn!

Celtic belief also held that the severed head could continue to live, eat, talk and even sing independently of the body. It was thought that they could foretell the future or recall the past. Again mythology gives us the story of Bendigeidfran, Bran the Blessed, whose head was cut from his poisoned body and carried to and island off the coast of Wales, where it continued to speak prophetically for 87 years. It was eventually buried at the White Mount or Hill in London.

The association of severed human heads and skulls with sacred Wells and Springs, especially those with healing properties, was very ancient and common to the early Celtic world in general. It was believed that the power of the head would increase the power of the water and visa versa. Later, when head lopping was not so fashionable, the cult of the head remained important and heads carved in stone or metal would often act as a substitute for human skulls.

1 Chronicles 10: Saul’s Overthrow and Death (1 Samuel 31:1-6; 2 Samuel 1:1-16) 

 8And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa. 9And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings to their idols, and to the people. 10And they put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.