VINE
VINE, The
- Often found wild # 2Ki 4:39 Ho 9:10
- CULTIVATED 2a) In vineyards from the time of Noah
# Ge 9:20
2b) On the sides of hills # Jer 31:5 2c) In the valleys # So 6:11 2d) By the walls of houses # Ps 128:3 3) Required to be dressed and pruned to increase its fruitfulness # Le 25:3 2Ch 26:10 Isa 18:5 4) Canaan abounded in # De 6:11 8:8 5) PLACES CELEBRATED FOR 5a) Eshcol # Nu 13:23,24 5b) Sibmah # Isa 16:8,9 5c) Lebanon # Ho 14:7 5d) Egypt # Ps 78:47 80:8 6) The dwarf and spreading vine particularly esteemed # Eze 17:6 7) Of Sodom bad and unfit for use # De 32:32 8) Often degenerated # Isa 5:2 Jer 2:21 9) Frequently injured by hail and frost # Ps 78:47 105:32,33 10) Foxes destructive to # So 2:15 11) The wild boar destructive to # Ps 80:13 12) THE FRUIT OF 12a) Called grapes # Ge 40:10 12b) Peculiarly sour when unripe # Jer 31:30 12c) Eaten fresh from the tree # De 23:24 12d) Eaten dried # 1Sa 25:18 30:12 12e) Sold in the markets # Ne 13:15 12f) Made into wine # De 32:14 Mt 26:29 13) The wood of, fit only for burning # Eze 15:2-5 14) Young cattle fed on its leaves and tender shoots # Ge 49:11 15) Probably produced two crops of fruit in the year # Nu 13:20 16) Perfumed the air with the fragrance of its flowers # So 2:13 Ho 14:7 17) God made, fruitful for his people when obedient # Joe 2:22 Zec 8:12 18) Frequently made unfruitful as a punishment # Jer 8:13 Ho 2:12 Joe 1:7,12 Hag 2:19 19) Sometimes cast its fruit before it came to perfection # Job 15:33 Mal 3:11 20) Nazarites prohibited eating any part of # Nu 6:3,4 21) ILLUSTRATIVE 21a) Of Christ # Joh 15:1,2 21b) Of Israel # Ps 80:8 Isa 5:2,7 21c) (Its fruitful branches,) of saints # Joh 15:5 21d) (Of unfruitful branches,) of mere professors # Joh 15:2,6 21e) (Its quick growth,) of the growth of saints in grace # Ho 14:7 21f) (Its rich clusters,) of the graces of the church # So 7:8 21g) (Pruning of,) of God’s purifying his people by afflictions # Joh 15:2 21h) (Worthlessness of its wood,) of the unprofitableness, of the wicked # Eze 15:6,7 21i) (Unfruitful,) of the wicked # Ho 10:1 21j) (Sitting under one’s own) of peace and prosperity # 1Ki 4:25 Mic 4:4 Zec 3:10 22) Proverbial allusion to fathers eating the unripe fruit of # Jer 31:29,30 Eze 18:2