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.

Origin and antiquity of  Ge 9:20.
The design of planting  Ps 107:37; 1Co 9:7.
Frequently walled or fenced with hedges  Nu 22:24; Pr 24:31; Isa 5:2,5.
Cottages built in, for the keepers  Isa 1:8.
Provided with the apparatus for making wine  Isa 5:2; Mt 21:33.
The stones carefully gathered out of  Isa 5:2.
Laws respecting
Not to be planted with different kinds of seed.  De 22:9.
Not to be cultivated in the Sabbatical year.  Ex 23:11; Le 25:4.
The spontaneous fruit of, not to be gathered during the sabbatical year.  Le 25:5,11.
Compensation in kind to be made for injury done to.  Ex 22:5.
Strangers entering, allowed to eat fruit of, but not to take any away.  De 23:24.
The gleaning of, to be left for the poor.  Le 19:10; De 24:21.
The fruit of new, not to be eaten for three years.  Le 19:23.
The fruit of new, to be holy to the Lord in the fourth year.  Le 19:24.
The fruit of new, to be eaten by the owners from the fifth year.  Le 19:25.
Planters of, not liable to military service till they had eaten of the fruit.  De 20:6.

Frequently let out to husbandmen  Song 8:11; Mt 21:33.
Rent of, frequently paid by part of the fruit  Mt 21:34.
Were often mortgaged  Ne 5:3,4.
Estimated rent of  Song 8:11; Isa 7:23.
Estimated profit arising from, to the cultivators  Song 8:12.
The poor engaged in the culture of  2Ki 25:12; Isa 61:5.
Members of the family often wrought in  Song 1:6; Mt 21:28-30.
Mode of hiring and paying labourers for working in  Mt 20:1,2.
Of the kings of Israel superintended by officers of the state  1Ch 27:27.
The vintage or ingathering of
Was a time of great rejoicing.  Isa 16:10.
Sometimes continued to the time of sowing seed.  Le 26:5.
Failure in, occasioned great grief.  Isa 16:9,10.

Of red grapes particularly esteemed  Isa 27:2.
The produce of, was frequently destroyed by enemies  Jer 48:32.
The whole produce of, often destroyed by insects, &c  De 28:39; Am 4:9.
In unfavourable seasons produced but little wine  Isa 5:10; Hag 1:9,11.
The wicked judicially deprived of the enjoyment of  Am 5:11; Zep 1:13.
The Rechabites forbidden to plant  Jer 35:7-9.
Of the slothful man neglected and laid waste  Pr 24:30,31.
Illustrative
Of the Jewish Church.  Isa 5:7; 27:2; Jer 12:10; Mt 21:23.
(Failure of,) of severe calamities.  Isa 32:10.
(Cleaning grapes of,) of the elect.  Isa 24:13.

God often made known his will by  Ps 89:19.
God especially made himself known to prophets by  Nu 12:6.
Often accompanied
A representative of the divine person and glory.  Isa 6:1.
An audible voice from heaven.  Ge 15:1; 1Sa 3:4,5.
An appearance of angels.  Lu 1:22,11; 24:23; Ac 10:3.
An appearance of human beings.  Ac 9:12; 16:9.

Frequently difficult and perplexing to those who received them  Da 7:15; 8:15; Ac 10:17.
Often communicated
In the night season.  Ge 46:2; Da 2:19.
In a trance.  Nu 24:16; Ac 11:5.

Often recorded for the benefit of the people  Hab 2:2.
Often multiplied for the benefit of the people  Ho 12:10.
Mentioned in scripture
To Abraham.  Ge 15:1.
To Jacob.  Ge 46:2.
To Moses.  Ex 3:2,3; Ac 7:30-32.
To Samuel.  1Sa 3:2-15.
To Nathan.  2Sa 7:4,17.
To Eliphaz.  Job 4:13-16.
To Isaiah.  Isa 6:1-8.
To Ezekiel (See chapters 10, 40-48 of Ezekiel).  Eze 1:4-14; 8:2-14; 11:24,25; 37:1-10.
To Nebuchadnezzar.  Da 2:28; Da 4:5.
To Daniel (See chapters 7, 8, and 10 of Daniel).  Da 2:19.
To Amos.  Am 7:1-9; 8:1-6; 9:1.
To Zechariah.  Zec 1:8; 3:1; 4:2; 5:2; 6:1.
To Paul.  Ac 9:3,6; 16:9; 18:9; 22:18; 27:23; 2Ch 12:1-4.
To Ananias.  Ac 9:10,11.
To Cornelius.  Ac 10:3.
To Peter.  Ac 10:9-17.
To John (See also Rev chapters 4 – 22).  Re 1:12.

Sometimes withheld for a long season  1Sa 3:1.
The withholding of a great calamity  Pr 29:18; La 2:9.
False prophets pretended to have seen  Jer 14:14; 23:16.
The prophets of God skilled in interpreting  2Ch 26:5; Da 1:17.

Solemn promises made to God  Ps 76:11.
Were made in reference to
Devoting the person to God.  Nu 6:2.
Dedicating children to God.  1Sa 1:11.
Devoting property to God.  Ge 28:22.
Offering sacrifices.  Le 7:16; 22:18:22; Nu 15:3.
Afflicting the soul.  Nu 30:13.

To be voluntary  De 23:21,22.
To be performed faithfully  Nu 30:2.
To be performed without delay  De 23:21,23.
Danger of inconsiderately making  Pr 20:25.
Of children void without the consent of parents  Nu 30:3-5.
Of married women void without consent of husbands  Nu 30:6-8,10-13.
Of widows and women divorced from their husbands binding  Nu 30:9.
Of wives, could only be objected to at the time of making  Nu 30:14,15.
Might be redeemed by paying a suitable compensation  Le 27:1-8,11-23.
Clean beasts the subjects of, not to be redeemed  Le 27:9,10.
Recorded in scripture
Of Jacob.  Ge 28:20-22; 31:13.
Of Israelites.  Nu 21:2.
Of Jephthah.  Jdj 11:30,31.
Of Hannah.  1Sa 1:1.
Of Elkanah.  1Sa 1:24.
Of David.  Ps 132:2-5.
Of mariners who cast out Jonah.  Jon 1:16.
Of Jonah.  Jon 2:9.
Of Lemuel’s mother.  Pr 31:1,2.
Of Paul.  Ac 18:18.
Of certain Jews with Paul.  Ac 21:23,24,26.

All things dedicated by, to be brought to the tabernacle  De 12:6,11,17,18,26.
Of things corrupt or blemished an insult to God  Le 22:23; Mal 1:14.
The hire of a prostitute or price of a dog could not be the subject of  De 23:18.

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