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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 the wood
- So 2:3- Of the forest
- Isa 10:19- Bearing fruit
- Ne 9:25; Ec 2:5; Eze 47:12- Evergreen
- Ps 37:35; Jer 17:2- Deciduous or casting the leaves
- Isa 6:13Of 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
- The roots
- Jer 17:8- The stem or trunk
- Isa 11:1; 44:19- The branches
- Le 23:40; Da 4:14- The tender shoots
- Lu 21:29,30- The leaves
- Isa 6:13; Da 4:12; Mt 21:19- The fruit or seeds
- Le 27:30; Eze 36:30Each 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 104:16Specially 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
- Locusts
- Ex 10:5,15; De 28:42- Hail and frost
- Ex 9:25; Ps 78:47- Fire
- Joe 1:19- Desolating armies
- 2Ki 19:23; Isa 10:34Afford an agreeable shade in eastern countries during the heat of the day - Ge 18:4; Job 40:21
WERE CUT DOWN
- With axes
- De 19:5; Ps 74:5; Mt 3:10- For building
- 2Ki 6:2; 2Ch 2:8,10- By besieging armies for erecting forts
- De 20:20; Jer 6:6- For making idols
- Isa 40:20; 44:14,17- For fuel
- Isa 44:14-16; Mt 3:10God 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 14:19MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE
- Almond
- Ge 43:11; Ec 12:5; Jer 1:11- Almug or algum
- 1Ki 10:11,12; 2Ch 9:10,11- Apple
- So 2:3; 8:5; Joe 1:12- Ash
- Isa 44:14- Bay
- Ps 37:35- Box
- Isa 41:19- Cedar
- 1Ki 10:27- Chestnut
- Eze 31:8- Cyprus
- Isa 44:14- Fig
- De 8:8- Fir
- 1Ki 5:10; 2Ki 19:23; Ps 104:17- Juniper
- 1Ki 19:4,5- Lign-aloes
- Nu 24:6- Mulberry
- 2Sa 5:23,24- Myrtle
- Isa 41:19; 55:13; Zec 1:8- Mustard
- Mt 13:32- Oak
- Isa 1:30- Oil-tree
- Isa 41:19- Olive
- De 6:11- Palm
- Ex 15:27- Pine
- Isa 41:19- Pomegranate
- De 8:8; Joe 1:12- Shittah or shittim
- Ex 36:20; Isa 41:19- Sycamore
- 1Ki 10:27; Ps 78:47; Am 7:14; Lu 19:4- Teil
- Isa 6:13- Vine
- Nu 6:4; Eze 15:2- Willow
- Isa 44:4; Eze 17:5Solomon 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
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