Trees
Trees
Originally created by God - Ge 1:11,12; 2:9
Made for the glory of God - Ps 148:9
DIFFERENT KINDS OF MENTIONED
Of various sizes - Eze 17:24
Given as food to the animal creation - Ge 1:29,30; De 20:19
Designed to beautify the earth - Ge 2:9
PARTS OF MENTIONED
Each kind has its own seed for propagating its species - Ge 1:11,12
Often propagated by birds who carry the seeds along with them - Eze 17:3,5
Planted by man - Le 19:23
Each kind of, known by its fruit - Mt 12:33
NOURISHED
- By the earth
- Ge 1:12; 2:9 - By the rain from heaven
- Isa 44:14 - Through their own sap
- Ps 104:16
Specially flourished beside the rivers and streams of water - Eze 47:12
When cut down often sprouted from their roots again - Job 14:7
Were sold with the land on which they grew - Ge 23:17
OFTEN SUFFERED FROM
Afford an agreeable shade in eastern countries during the heat of the day - Ge 18:4; Job 40:21
WERE CUT DOWN
God increases and multiplies the fruit of, for his people - Le 26:4; Eze 34:27; Joe 2:22
God often renders, barren as a punishment - Le 26:20
Early custom of planting, in consecrated grounds - Ge 21:33
THE JEWS
- Prohibited from planting in consecrated places
- De 16:21 - Prohibited from cutting down fruit bearing, for sieges
- De 20:19 - Often pitched their tents under
- Ge 18:1,4; Jud 4:5; 1Sa 22:6 - Often buried under
- Ge 35:8; 1Sa 21:13 - Often executed criminals on
- De 21:22,23; Jos 10:26; Ga 3:13; Ge 40:19 - Considered trees on which criminals were executed
abominable - Isa 14:19
MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE
Solomon wrote the history of - 1Ki 4:33
ILLUSTRATIVE
- Of Christ
- Ro 11:24; Re 2:7; 22:2,14 - Of wisdom
- Pr 3:18 - Of kings, &c
- Isa 10:34; Eze 17:24; 31:7-10; Da 4:10-14 - Of the life and conversation of the righteous
- Pr 11:30; 15:4 - (Green,) of the innocence of Christ
- Lu 23:31 - (Good and fruitful,) of saints
- Nu 24:6; Ps 1:3; Isa 61:3; Jer 17:8; Mt 7:17,18 - (Evergreen,) of saints
- Ps 1:1-3 - (Duration of,) of continued prosperity of saints
- Isa 65:22 - (Casting their leaves yet retaining their substance,) of
the elect remnant in the church - Isa 6:13 - (Barren,) of the wicked
- Ho 9:16 - (Shaking of the leaves off,) of the terror of the wicked
- Isa 7:2 - (Producing evil fruit,) of the wicked
- Mt 7:17-19 - (Dry,) of useless persons
- Isa 56:3 - (Dry,) of the wicked ripe for judgment
- Lu 23:31 Next Topic (Trespass Offering)