 The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but cedars will we put in their place.The trees were once very common along the lowlands and coastal plains of Israel.During the Second Temple period, sycamore fig trees grew in Jericho, but when passers-by would come along and appropriate the tree branches unto themselves, the owners came and dedicated the trees, in their entirety, to the Temple treasury as a dedicatory offering in order to prevent their theft.