Megan Bishop Moore (2000). "Cedar". In David Noel Freedman (ed.). Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 227. ISBN978-90-5356-503-2.
UNESCO "the Forest of the Cedars of God is the last vestige of antique forests and one of the rare sites where the Cedrus lebani still grows, one of the most valued construction materials in the antique world and cited 103 times in the Bible."