Lebanon

הַלְּבָנוֹן

Where is Lebanon? The Lebanon mountains, in Lebanon. I mark it certain.

Solomon's woodcutters worked on these mountains beside Hiram's men from Tyre. They felled the great cedars, floated them down the coast on rafts and hauled them up to Jerusalem for the Temple.

By Aaron Shaffier, licensed Israel tour guide and mapmaker · About the mapmaker

Site today
The Lebanon mountains, in Lebanon
How sure
Certain The name, the sources and the finds all agree.
Other names
Mount Lebanon, Levanon
Location
33.4095° N, 35.4784° E (Google Maps)
Lebanon on the hand-drawn Map of Biblical Israel
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How we know where it was

The name explains itself. Levanon comes from lavan, white, for the snow on its peaks. The name has never left these mountains.

In the Tanach the Lebanon is two things. It is the source of cedar, the timber of kings and the Psalmist's picture of the righteous growing tall. And it is the ideal northern edge of the Land. Moses' last plea was to cross over and see "this good hill country and the Lebanon."

Visiting today

The Lebanon is in Lebanon and can't be reached from Israel. A grove of the old cedars survives in the north of the country, near Bsharri.

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