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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

• Eshcol
- Nu 13:23,24
• Sibmah
- Isa 16:8,9
• Lebanon
- Ho 14:7
• Egypt
- Ps 78:47; 80:8

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

• Called grapes
- Ge 40:10
• Peculiarly sour when unripe
- Jer 31:30
• Eaten fresh from the tree
- De 23:24
• Eaten dried
- 1Sa 25:18; 30:12
• Sold in the markets
- Ne 13:15
• Made into wine
- De 32:14; Mt 26:29

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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