VINEYARDS

VINEYARDS

  1. Origin and antiquity of # Ge 9:20
  2. The design of planting # Ps 107:37 1Co 9:7
  3. Frequently walled or fenced with hedges # Nu 22:24 Pr 24:31 Isa 5:2,5
  4. Cottages built in, for the keepers # Isa 1:8
  5. Provided with the apparatus for making wine # Isa 5:2 Mt 21:33
  6. The stones carefully gathered out of # Isa 5:2
  7. LAWS RESPECTING 7a) Not to be planted with different kinds of seed

    # De 22:9

7b) Not to be cultivated in the Sabbatical year # Ex 23:11 Le 25:4 7c) The spontaneous fruit of, not to be gathered during the sabbatical year # Le 25:5,11 7d) Compensation in kind to be made for injury done to # Ex 22:5 7e) Strangers entering, allowed to eat fruit of, but not to take any away # De 23:24 7f) The gleaning of, to be left for the poor # Le 19:10 De 24:21 7g) The fruit of new, not to be eaten for three years # Le 19:23 7h) The fruit of new, to be holy to the Lord in the fourth year # Le 19:24 7i) The fruit of new, to be eaten by the owners from the fifth year # Le 19:25 7j) Planters of, not liable to military service till they had eaten of the fruit # De 20:6 8) Frequently let out to husbandmen # So 8:11 Mt 21:33 9) Rent of, frequently paid by part of the fruit # Mt 21:34 10) Were often mortgaged # Ne 5:3,4 11) Estimated rent of # So 8:11 Isa 7:23 12) Estimated profit arising from, to the cultivators # So 8:12 13) The poor engaged in the culture of # 2Ki 25:12 Isa 61:5 14) Members of the family often wrought in # So 1:6 Mt 21:28-30 15) Mode of hiring and paying labourers for working in # Mt 20:1,2 16) Of the kings of Israel superintended by officers of the state # 1Ch 27:27 17) THE VINTAGE OR INGATHERING OF 17a) Was a time of great rejoicing # Isa 16:10 17b) Sometimes continued to the time of sowing seed # Le 26:5 17c) Failure in, occasioned great grief # Isa 16:9,10 18) Of red grapes particularly esteemed # Isa 27:2 19) The produce of, was frequently destroyed by enemies # Jer 48:32 20) The whole produce of, often destroyed by insects, &c # De 28:39 Am 4:9 21) In unfavourable seasons produced but little wine # Isa 5:10 Hag 1:9,11 22) The wicked judicially deprived of the enjoyment of # Am 5:11 Zep 1:13 23) The Rechabites forbidden to plant # Jer 35:7-9 24) Of the slothful man neglected and laid waste # Pr 24:30,31 25) ILLUSTRATIVE 25a) Of the Jewish Church # Isa 5:7 27:2 Jer 12:10 Mt 21:23 25b) (Failure of,) of severe calamities # Isa 32:10 25c) (Cleaning grapes of,) of the elect # Isa 24:13