25 Bible Verses about Olive Trees

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Psalm 52:8

But I am like a branching olive-tree in the house of God; I have put my faith in his mercy for ever and ever.

Revelation 11:4

These are the two olive-trees and the two lights, which are before the Lord of the earth.

Zechariah 4:11

And I made answer and said to him, What are these two olive-trees on the right side of the light-support and on the left?

Romans 11:17

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,

Zechariah 4:3

And two olive-trees by it, one on the right side of the cup and one on the left.

Jeremiah 11:16

You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.

Isaiah 17:6

But it will be like a man shaking an olive-tree, something will still be there, two or three berries on the top of the highest branch, four or five on the outside branches of a fertile tree, says the Lord, the God of Israel.

Zechariah 4:12

And answering a second time, I said to him, What are these two olive branches, through whose gold pipes the oil is drained out?

Hosea 14:6

His branches will be stretched out, he will be beautiful as the olive-tree and sweet-smelling as Lebanon.

Habakkuk 3:17

For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:

Deuteronomy 6:11

And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full;

Romans 11:24

For if you were cut out of a field olive-tree, and against the natural use were united to a good olive-tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be united again with the olive-tree which was theirs?

Judges 9:8

One day the trees went out to make a king for themselves; and they said to the olive-tree, Be king over us.

Judges 9:9

But the olive-tree said to them, Am I to give up my wealth of oil, by which men give honour to God, and go waving over the trees?

Isaiah 41:19

I will put in the waste land the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive-tree; and in the lowland will be planted the fir-tree, the plane, and the cypress together:

Deuteronomy 24:20

When you are shaking the fruit from your olive-trees, do not go over the branches a second time: let some be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow.

Deuteronomy 8:8

A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving olive-trees and honey;

Isaiah 24:13

For it will be in the heart of the earth among the peoples, like the shaking of an olive-tree, as the last of the grapes after the getting-in is done.

Luke 13:9

And if, after that, it has fruit, it is well; if not, let it be cut down.

Deuteronomy 28:40

Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit.

Genesis 8:11

And the dove came back at evening, and in her mouth was an olive-leaf broken off: so Noah was certain that the waters had gone down on the earth.

Luke 19:4

And he went quickly in front of them and got up into a tree to see him, for he was going that way.

Romans 11:18

Do not be uplifted in pride over the branches: because it is not you who are the support of the root, but it is by the root that you are supported.

Jeremiah 17:8

For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.

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Olive Trees » Canaan abounded in

Deuteronomy 8:8

A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving olive-trees and honey;

Deuteronomy 6:11

And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full;

Olive Trees » Oil procured from

Deuteronomy 8:8

A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving olive-trees and honey;

Exodus 27:20

Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clear olive oil for the lights, so that a light may be burning there at all times.

Olive Trees » Cultivated » In olive yards

1 Samuel 8:14

He will take your fields and your vine-gardens and your olive-gardens, all the best of them, and give them to his servants.

Nehemiah 5:11

Give back to them this very day their fields, their vine-gardens, their olive-gardens, and their houses, as well as a hundredth part of the money and the grain and the wine and the oil which you have taken from them.

Olive Trees » Illustrative » (when wild,) of the gentiles

Romans 11:24

For if you were cut out of a field olive-tree, and against the natural use were united to a good olive-tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be united again with the olive-tree which was theirs?

Romans 11:17

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,

Olive Trees » Illustrative » Of Christ

Romans 11:24

For if you were cut out of a field olive-tree, and against the natural use were united to a good olive-tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be united again with the olive-tree which was theirs?

Romans 11:17

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,

Olive Trees » Described as » Bearing goodly fruit

Jeremiah 11:16

You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.

James 3:12

Is a fig-tree able to give us olives, my brothers, or do we get figs from a vine, or sweet water from the salt sea?

Olive Trees » Described as » Fair and beautiful

Hosea 14:6

His branches will be stretched out, he will be beautiful as the olive-tree and sweet-smelling as Lebanon.

Jeremiah 11:16

You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.

Olive Trees » Illustrative » (gleaning of,) of the remnant of grace

Isaiah 17:6

But it will be like a man shaking an olive-tree, something will still be there, two or three berries on the top of the highest branch, four or five on the outside branches of a fertile tree, says the Lord, the God of Israel.

Isaiah 24:13

For it will be in the heart of the earth among the peoples, like the shaking of an olive-tree, as the last of the grapes after the getting-in is done.

Olive Trees » Described as » Fat and unctuous

Romans 11:17

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,

Judges 9:9

But the olive-tree said to them, Am I to give up my wealth of oil, by which men give honour to God, and go waving over the trees?

Olive Trees » The fruit of, trodden in presses to extract the oil

Haggai 2:16

How, when anyone came to a store of twenty measures, there were only ten: when anyone went to the wine-store to get fifty vessels full, there were only twenty.

Micah 6:15

You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.

Olive Trees » Illustrative » Of the righteous

Psalm 52:8

But I am like a branching olive-tree in the house of God; I have put my faith in his mercy for ever and ever.

Hosea 14:6

His branches will be stretched out, he will be beautiful as the olive-tree and sweet-smelling as Lebanon.

Olive Trees » Kings of israel largely cultivated

1 Chronicles 27:28

Baal-hanan the Gederite was responsible for the olive-trees and the sycamore-trees in the lowlands; and Joash for the stores of oil;

Olive Trees » Illustrative » Of the two witnesses

Revelation 11:3-4

And I will give orders to my two witnesses, and they will be prophets for a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed with haircloth. These are the two olive-trees and the two lights, which are before the Lord of the earth.

Olive Trees » Cultivated » Among rocks

Deuteronomy 32:13

He put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the field; honey he gave him out of the rock and oil out of the hard rock;

Olive Trees » Gleaning of, left for the poor

Deuteronomy 24:20

When you are shaking the fruit from your olive-trees, do not go over the branches a second time: let some be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow.

Olive Trees » Beaten to remove the fruit

Deuteronomy 24:20

When you are shaking the fruit from your olive-trees, do not go over the branches a second time: let some be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow.

Olive Trees » Often cast its fruit

Deuteronomy 28:40

Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit.

Olive Trees » Failure of, a great calamity

Habakkuk 3:17-18

For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house: Still, I will be glad in the Lord, my joy will be in the God of my salvation.

Olive Trees » Used for making » The doors and posts of the temple

1 Kings 6:31-33

For the way into the inmost room he made doors of olive-wood, the arch and the door supports forming a five-sided opening. On the olive-wood doors were cut designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, all of them, with the doors, plated with gold. Then he made pillars of olive-wood for the way into the Temple; the pillars were square:

Olive Trees » Pruning of, alluded to

Romans 11:18-19

Do not be uplifted in pride over the branches: because it is not you who are the support of the root, but it is by the root that you are supported. You will say, Branches were broken off so that I might be put in.

Olive Trees » Illustrative » Of the jewish church

Jeremiah 11:16

You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.

Olive Trees » Described as » Green

Jeremiah 11:16

You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.

Olive Trees » Used for making » Booths at feast of tabernacles

Nehemiah 8:15

And that they were to give out an order, and make it public in all their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, Go out to the mountain and get olive branches and branches of field olives and of myrtle, and palm branches and branches of thick trees, to make tents, as it says in the book.

Olive Trees » Assyria abounded in

2 Kings 18:32

Till I come and take you away to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vine-gardens, a land of oil-giving olives and of honey, so that life and not death may be your fate. Give no attention to Hezekiah when he says to you, The Lord will keep us safe.

Olive Trees » Used for making » The cherubim in the temple

1 Kings 6:23

In the inmost room he made two winged beings of olive-wood, ten cubits high;

Olive Trees » Illustrative » Probable origin of its being the emblem of peace

Genesis 8:11

And the dove came back at evening, and in her mouth was an olive-leaf broken off: so Noah was certain that the waters had gone down on the earth.

Olive Trees » Cultivated » On the sides of mountains

Matthew 21:1

And when they were near Jerusalem, and had come to Beth-phage, to the Mountain of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples,

Olive Trees » Fruit of, during sabbatical year left for the poor, &c

Exodus 23:11

But in the seventh year let the land have a rest and be unplanted; so that the poor may have food from it: and let the beasts of the field take the rest. Do the same with your vine-gardens and your olive-trees.

Olive Trees » Grafting of, alluded to

Romans 11:24

For if you were cut out of a field olive-tree, and against the natural use were united to a good olive-tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be united again with the olive-tree which was theirs?

Olive Trees » Often grew wild

Romans 11:17

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,

Olive Trees » Illustrative » Of children of pious parents

Olive Trees » Shaken when fully ripe

Isaiah 17:6

But it will be like a man shaking an olive-tree, something will still be there, two or three berries on the top of the highest branch, four or five on the outside branches of a fertile tree, says the Lord, the God of Israel.

Olive Trees » Good for the service of God and man

Judges 9:9

But the olive-tree said to them, Am I to give up my wealth of oil, by which men give honour to God, and go waving over the trees?

Olive Trees » Often cast its flowers

Job 15:33

He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.

Olive Trees » Often suffered from caterpillars

Amos 4:9

I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

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