Vine, The
Vine, The
Often found wild - 2Ki 4:39; Ho 9:10
CULTIVATED
- In vineyards from the time of Noah
- Ge 9:20 - On the sides of hills
- Jer 31:5 - In the valleys
- So 6:11 - By the walls of houses
- Ps 128:3
Required to be dressed and pruned to increase its fruitfulness - Le 25:3; 2Ch 26:10; Isa 18:5
Canaan abounded in - De 6:11; 8:8
PLACES CELEBRATED FOR
The dwarf and spreading vine particularly esteemed - Eze 17:6
Of Sodom bad and unfit for use - De 32:32
Often degenerated - Isa 5:2; Jer 2:21
Frequently injured by hail and frost - Ps 78:47; 105:32,33
Foxes destructive to - So 2:15
The wild boar destructive to - Ps 80:13
THE FRUIT OF
The wood of, fit only for burning - Eze 15:2-5
Young cattle fed on its leaves and tender shoots - Ge 49:11
Probably produced two crops of fruit in the year - Nu 13:20
Perfumed the air with the fragrance of its flowers - So 2:13; Ho 14:7
God made, fruitful for his people when obedient - Joe 2:22; Zec 8:12
Frequently made unfruitful as a punishment - Jer 8:13; Ho 2:12; Joe 1:7,12; Hag 2:19
Sometimes cast its fruit before it came to perfection - Job 15:33; Mal 3:11
Nazarites prohibited eating any part of - Nu 6:3,4
ILLUSTRATIVE
- Of Christ
- Joh 15:1,2 - Of Israel
- Ps 80:8; Isa 5:2,7 - (Its fruitful branches,) of saints
- Joh 15:5 - (Of unfruitful branches,) of mere professors
- Joh 15:2,6 - (Its quick growth,) of the growth of saints in grace
- Ho 14:7 - (Its rich clusters,) of the graces of the church
- So 7:8 - (Pruning of,) of God's purifying his people by afflictions
- Joh 15:2 - (Worthlessness of its wood,) of the unprofitableness, of
the wicked - Eze 15:6,7 - (Unfruitful,) of the wicked
- Ho 10:1 - (Sitting under one's own) of peace and prosperity
- 1Ki 4:25; Mic 4:4; Zec 3:10
Proverbial allusion to fathers eating the unripe fruit of - Jer 31:29,30; Eze 18:2
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