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Forests
Tracts of land covered with trees - Isa 44:14
Underbrush often in - Isa 9:18
Infested by wild beasts - Ps 50:10; 104:20; Isa 56:9; Jer 5:6; Mic 5:8
Abounded with wild honey - 1Sa 14:25,26
Often afforded pasture - Mic 7:14
MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE
- Bashan
- Isa 2:13; Eze 27:6; Zec 11:2- Hareth
- 1Sa 22:5- Ephraim
- 2Sa 18:6,8- Lebanon
- 1Ki 7:2; 10:17- Carmel
- 2Ki 19:23; Isa 37:24- Arabian
- Isa 21:13- The south
- Eze 20:46,47- The king's
- Ne 2:8Supplied timber for building - 1Ki 5:6-8
Were places of refuge - 1Sa 22:5; 23:16
Jotham built towers, &c, in - 2Ch 27:4
The power of God extends over - Ps 29:9
Called on to rejoice at God's mercy - Isa 44:23
Often destroyed by enemies - 2Ki 19:23; Isa 37:24; Jer 46:23
ILLUSTRATIVE
- Of the unfruitful world
- Isa 32:19- (A fruitful field turned into,) of the Jews rejected by God
- Isa 29:17; 32:15- (Destroyed by fire,) of destruction of the wicked
- Isa 9:18; 10:17,18; Jer 21:14 Next Topic (Forgetting God)