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. -- Song 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 -- Song 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 -- Song 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. -- Song 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.