Thematic Bible: Hedges
Thematic Bible
Hedges » Placed around » Gardens
A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and in the indignation of his anger hath despised the king and the priest.
Hedges » Illustrative » Of heavy judgments
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
Hedges » Making up gaps in, alluded to
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.
Hedges » Illustrative » Of holy ordinances, &c
Hear another parable; There was a certain householder, who planted a vineyard, and hedged it around, and digged a wine-press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a remote country:
And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones of it, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wine-press therein: and he expected that it would bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Hedges » Placed around » Vineyards
Hear another parable; There was a certain householder, who planted a vineyard, and hedged it around, and digged a wine-press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a remote country:
And he began to speak to them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a place for the wine-vat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
Hedges » Illustrative » (broken down,) of the taking away of protection
And now come; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall of it, and it shall be trodden down:
Why hast thou then broke down her hedges, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck her?
Hedges » Illustrative » Of numerous afflictions
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Hedges » Danger of breaking through
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoever breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
Hedges » Antiquity of
These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.
Hedges » Illustrative » Of the way of the slothful
The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
Hedges » Difficulty of breaking through
The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
Hedges » Desolation caused by removing
Why hast thou then broke down her hedges, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck her? The boar from the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Hedges » Afforded protection in danger
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
Hedges » Poor travellers sought rest under
And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Hedges » Filled with grasshoppers
Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which settle in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Hedges » Designed for protection
And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones of it, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wine-press therein: and he expected that it would bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Hedges » Often made of thorns
The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
Hedges » Illustrative » Of God's protection
Hast not thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
Serpents » Infest » Hedges
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoever breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.