TREES
TREES
- Originally created by God # Ge 1:11,12 2:9
- Made for the glory of God # Ps 148:9
- DIFFERENT KINDS OF MENTIONED 3a) Of the wood
# So 2:3
3b) Of the forest # Isa 10:19 3c) Bearing fruit # Ne 9:25 Ec 2:5 Eze 47:12 3d) Evergreen # Ps 37:35 Jer 17:2 3e) Deciduous or casting the leaves # Isa 6:13 4) Of various sizes # Eze 17:24 5) Given as food to the animal creation # Ge 1:29,30 De 20:19 6) Designed to beautify the earth # Ge 2:9 7) PARTS OF MENTIONED 7a) The roots # Jer 17:8 7b) The stem or trunk # Isa 11:1 44:19 7c) The branches # Le 23:40 Da 4:14 7d) The tender shoots # Lu 21:29,30 7e) The leaves # Isa 6:13 Da 4:12 Mt 21:19 7f) The fruit or seeds # Le 27:30 Eze 36:30 8) Each kind has its own seed for propagating its species # Ge 1:11,12 9) Often propagated by birds who carry the seeds along with them # Eze 17:3,5 10) Planted by man # Le 19:23 11) Each kind of, known by its fruit # Mt 12:33 12) NOURISHED 12a) By the earth # Ge 1:12 2:9 12b) By the rain from heaven # Isa 44:14 12c) Through their own sap # Ps 104:16 13) Specially flourished beside the rivers and streams of water # Eze 47:12 14) When cut down often sprouted from their roots again # Job 14:7 15) Were sold with the land on which they grew # Ge 23:17 16) OFTEN SUFFERED FROM 16a) Locusts # Ex 10:5,15 De 28:42 16b) Hail and frost # Ex 9:25 Ps 78:47 16c) Fire # Joe 1:19 16d) Desolating armies # 2Ki 19:23 Isa 10:34 17) Afford an agreeable shade in eastern countries during the heat of the day # Ge 18:4 Job 40:21 18) WERE CUT DOWN 18a) With axes # De 19:5 Ps 74:5 Mt 3:10 18b) For building # 2Ki 6:2 2Ch 2:8,10 18c) By besieging armies for erecting forts # De 20:20 Jer 6:6 18d) For making idols # Isa 40:20 44:14,17 18e) For fuel # Isa 44:14-16 Mt 3:10 19) God increases and multiplies the fruit of, for his people # Le 26:4 Eze 34:27 Joe 2:22 20) God often renders, barren as a punishment # Le 26:20 21) Early custom of planting, in consecrated grounds # Ge 21:33 22) THE JEWS 22a) Prohibited from planting in consecrated places # De 16:21 22b) Prohibited from cutting down fruit bearing, for sieges # De 20:19 22c) Often pitched their tents under # Ge 18:1,4 Jud 4:5 1Sa 22:6 22d) Often buried under # Ge 35:8 1Sa 21:13 22e) Often executed criminals on # De 21:22,23 Jos 10:26 Ga 3:13 Ge 40:19 22f) Considered trees on which criminals were executed abominable # Isa 14:19 23) MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE 23a) Almond # Ge 43:11 Ec 12:5 Jer 1:11 23b) Almug or algum # 1Ki 10:11,12 2Ch 9:10,11 23c) Apple # So 2:3 8:5 Joe 1:12 23d) Ash # Isa 44:14 23e) Bay # Ps 37:35 23f) Box # Isa 41:19 23g) Cedar # 1Ki 10:27 23h) Chestnut # Eze 31:8 23i) Cyprus # Isa 44:14 23j) Fig # De 8:8 23k) Fir # 1Ki 5:10 2Ki 19:23 Ps 104:17 23l) Juniper # 1Ki 19:4,5 23m) Lign-aloes # Nu 24:6 23n) Mulberry # 2Sa 5:23,24 23o) Myrtle # Isa 41:19 55:13 Zec 1:8 23p) Mustard # Mt 13:32 23q) Oak # Isa 1:30 23r) Oil-tree # Isa 41:19 23s) Olive # De 6:11 23t) Palm # Ex 15:27 23u) Pine # Isa 41:19 23v) Pomegranate # De 8:8 Joe 1:12 23w) Shittah or shittim # Ex 36:20 Isa 41:19 23x) Sycamore # 1Ki 10:27 Ps 78:47 Am 7:14 Lu 19:4 23y) Teil # Isa 6:13 23z) Vine # Nu 6:4 Eze 15:2 23A) Willow # Isa 44:4 Eze 17:5 24) Solomon wrote the history of # 1Ki 4:33 25) ILLUSTRATIVE 25a) Of Christ # Ro 11:24 Re 2:7 22:2,14 25b) Of wisdom # Pr 3:18 25c) Of kings, &c # Isa 10:34 Eze 17:24 31:7-10 Da 4:10-14 25d) Of the life and conversation of the righteous # Pr 11:30 15:4 25e) (Green,) of the innocence of Christ # Lu 23:31 25f) (Good and fruitful,) of saints # Nu 24:6 Ps 1:3 Isa 61:3 Jer 17:8 Mt 7:17,18 25g) (Evergreen,) of saints # Ps 1:1-3 25h) (Duration of,) of continued prosperity of saints # Isa 65:22 25i) (Casting their leaves yet retaining their substance,) of the elect remnant in the church # Isa 6:13 25j) (Barren,) of the wicked # Ho 9:16 25k) (Shaking of the leaves off,) of the terror of the wicked # Isa 7:2 25l) (Producing evil fruit,) of the wicked # Mt 7:17-19 25m) (Dry,) of useless persons # Isa 56:3 25n) (Dry,) of the wicked ripe for judgment # Lu 23:31