Often found wild
2 Kings 4:39; Hosea 9:10
CULTIVATED In vineyards from the time of Noah
Genesis 9:20
On the sides of hills
Jeremiah 31:5
In the valleys
Song of Solomon 6:11
By the walls of houses
Psalm 128:3
Required to be dressed and pruned to increase its Fruitfulness
Leviticus 25:3; 2 Chronicles 26:10; Isaiah 18:5
Canaan abounded in
Deuteronomy 6:11; 8:8
PLACES CELEBRATED FOR Eshcol
Numbers 13:23,24
Sibmah
Isaiah 16:8,9
Lebanon
Hosea 14:7
Egypt
Psalm 78:47; 80:8
The dwarf and spreading vine particularly esteemed
Ezekiel 17:6
Of Sodom bad and unfit for use
Deuteronomy 32:32
Often degenerated
Isaiah 5:2; Jeremiah 2:21
Frequently injured by hail and frost
Psalm 78:47; 105:32,33
Foxes destructive to
Song of Solomon 2:15
The wild boar destructive to
Psalm 80:13
THE FRUIT OF Called grapes
Genesis 40:10
Peculiarly sour when unripe
Jeremiah 31:30
Eaten fresh from the tree
Deuteronomy 23:24
Eaten dried
1 Samuel 25:18; 30:12
Sold in the markets
Nehemiah 13:15
Made into wine
Deuteronomy 32:14; Matthew 26:29
The wood of, fit only for burning
Ezekiel 15:2-5
Young cattle fed on its leaves and tender shoots
Genesis 49:11
Probably produced two crops of fruit in the year
Numbers 13:20
Perfumed the air with the fragrance of its flowers
Song of Solomon 2:13; Hosea 14:7
God made, fruitful for his people when obedient
Joel 2:22; Zechariah 8:12
Frequently made unfruitful as a punishment
Jeremiah 8:13; Hosea 2:12; Joel 1:7,12; Haggai 2:19
Sometimes cast its fruit before it came to perfection
Job 15:33; Malachi 3:11
Nazarites prohibited eating any part of
Numbers 6:3,4
ILLUSTRATIVE Of Christ
John 15:1,2
Of Israel
Psalm 80:8; Isaiah 5:2,7
(Its fruitful branches,) of saints
John 15:5
(Of unfruitful branches,) of mere professors
John 15:2,6
(Its quick growth,) of the growth of saints in grace
Hosea 14:7
(Its rich clusters,) of the graces of the church
Song of Solomon 7:8
(Pruning of,) of God's purifying his people by afflictions
John 15:2
(Worthlessness of its wood,) of the unprofitableness, of The wicked
Ezekiel 15:6,7
(Unfruitful,) of the wicked
Hosea 10:1
(Sitting under one's own) of peace and prosperity
1 Kings 4:25; Micah 4:4; Zechariah 3:10
Proverbial allusion to fathers eating the unripe fruit of
Jeremiah 31:29,30; Ezekiel 18:2