27 Bible Verses about Olive Trees

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Revelation 11:4

(These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.)

Zechariah 4:11

Next I asked the messenger, "What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the menorah?"

Romans 11:17

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in the richness of the olive root,

Zechariah 4:3

There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right of the receptacle and the other on the left."

Jeremiah 11:16

I, the Lord, once called you a thriving olive tree, one that produced beautiful fruit. But I will set you on fire, fire that will blaze with a mighty roar. Then all your branches will be good for nothing.

Isaiah 17:6

There will be some left behind, like when an olive tree is beaten -- two or three ripe olives remain toward the very top, four or five on its fruitful branches," says the Lord God of Israel.

Zechariah 4:12

Before he could reply I asked again, "What are these two extensions of the olive trees, which are emptying out the golden oil through the two golden pipes?"

Hosea 14:6

His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.

Habakkuk 3:17

When the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines; when the olive trees do not produce, and the fields yield no crops; when the sheep disappear from the pen, and there are no cattle in the stalls,

Deuteronomy 6:11

houses filled with choice things you did not accumulate, hewn out cisterns you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant -- and you eat your fill,

Romans 11:24

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?

Judges 9:8

"The trees were determined to go out and choose a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, 'Be our king!'

Judges 9:9

But the olive tree said to them, 'I am not going to stop producing my oil, which is used to honor gods and men, just to sway above the other trees!'

Isaiah 41:19

I will make cedars, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees grow in the wilderness; I will make evergreens, firs, and cypresses grow together in the desert.

Deuteronomy 24:20

When you beat your olive tree you must not repeat the procedure; the remaining olives belong to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.

Deuteronomy 8:8

a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees and honey,

Isaiah 24:13

This is what will happen throughout the earth, among the nations. It will be like when they beat an olive tree, and just a few olives are left at the end of the harvest.

Luke 13:9

Then if it bears fruit next year, very well, but if not, you can cut it down.'"

Deuteronomy 28:40

You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe.

Genesis 8:11

When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

Luke 19:4

So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, because Jesus was going to pass that way.

Romans 11:18

do not boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

Jeremiah 17:8

They will be like a tree planted near a stream whose roots spread out toward the water. It has nothing to fear when the heat comes. Its leaves are always green. It has no need to be concerned in a year of drought. It does not stop bearing fruit.

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Olive Trees » Canaan abounded in

Deuteronomy 8:8

a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees and honey,

Deuteronomy 6:11

houses filled with choice things you did not accumulate, hewn out cisterns you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant -- and you eat your fill,

Olive Trees » Oil procured from

Deuteronomy 8:8

a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees and honey,

Exodus 27:20

"You are to command the Israelites that they bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, so that the lamps will burn regularly.

Olive Trees » Cultivated » In olive yards

1 Samuel 8:14

He will take your best fields and vineyards and give them to his own servants.

Nehemiah 5:11

This very day return to them their fields, their vineyards, their olive trees, and their houses, along with the interest that you are exacting from them on the money, the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil."

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

Romans 11:24

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?

Romans 11:17

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in the richness of the olive root,

Olive Trees » Illustrative » Of Christ

Romans 11:24

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?

Romans 11:17

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in the richness of the olive root,

Olive Trees » Described as » Bearing goodly fruit

Jeremiah 11:16

I, the Lord, once called you a thriving olive tree, one that produced beautiful fruit. But I will set you on fire, fire that will blaze with a mighty roar. Then all your branches will be good for nothing.

James 3:12

Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, or a vine produce figs? Neither can a salt water spring produce fresh water.

Olive Trees » Described as » Fair and beautiful

Hosea 14:6

His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.

Jeremiah 11:16

I, the Lord, once called you a thriving olive tree, one that produced beautiful fruit. But I will set you on fire, fire that will blaze with a mighty roar. Then all your branches will be good for nothing.

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

Isaiah 17:6

There will be some left behind, like when an olive tree is beaten -- two or three ripe olives remain toward the very top, four or five on its fruitful branches," says the Lord God of Israel.

Isaiah 24:13

This is what will happen throughout the earth, among the nations. It will be like when they beat an olive tree, and just a few olives are left at the end of the harvest.

Olive Trees » Described as » Fat and unctuous

Romans 11:17

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in the richness of the olive root,

Judges 9:9

But the olive tree said to them, 'I am not going to stop producing my oil, which is used to honor gods and men, just to sway above the other trees!'

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

Haggai 2:16

From that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty.

Micah 6:15

You will plant crops, but will not harvest them; you will squeeze oil from the olives, but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies; you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink.

Olive Trees » Illustrative » Of the righteous

Hosea 14:6

His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.

Olive Trees » Kings of israel largely cultivated

1 Chronicles 27:28

Baal-Hanan the Gederite was in charge of the olive and sycamore trees in the lowlands; Joash was in charge of the storehouses of olive oil.

Olive Trees » Illustrative » Of the two witnesses

Revelation 11:3-4

And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth. (These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.)

Olive Trees » Cultivated » Among rocks

Deuteronomy 32:13

He enabled him to travel over the high terrain of the land, and he ate of the produce of the fields. He provided honey for him from the cliffs, and olive oil from the hardest of rocks,

Olive Trees » Gleaning of, left for the poor

Deuteronomy 24:20

When you beat your olive tree you must not repeat the procedure; the remaining olives belong to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.

Olive Trees » Beaten to remove the fruit

Deuteronomy 24:20

When you beat your olive tree you must not repeat the procedure; the remaining olives belong to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.

Olive Trees » Often cast its fruit

Deuteronomy 28:40

You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe.

Olive Trees » Failure of, a great calamity

Habakkuk 3:17-18

When the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines; when the olive trees do not produce, and the fields yield no crops; when the sheep disappear from the pen, and there are no cattle in the stalls, I will rejoice because of the Lord; I will be happy because of the God who delivers me!

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

1 Kings 6:31-33

He made doors of olive wood at the entrance to the inner sanctuary; the pillar on each doorpost was five-sided. On the two doors made of olive wood he carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom, and he plated them with gold. He plated the cherubs and the palm trees with hammered gold. In the same way he made doorposts of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall, only with four-sided pillars.

Olive Trees » Pruning of, alluded to

Romans 11:18-19

do not boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. Then you will say, "The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in."

Olive Trees » Illustrative » Of the jewish church

Jeremiah 11:16

I, the Lord, once called you a thriving olive tree, one that produced beautiful fruit. But I will set you on fire, fire that will blaze with a mighty roar. Then all your branches will be good for nothing.

Olive Trees » Described as » Green

Jeremiah 11:16

I, the Lord, once called you a thriving olive tree, one that produced beautiful fruit. But I will set you on fire, fire that will blaze with a mighty roar. Then all your branches will be good for nothing.

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

Nehemiah 8:15

and that they should make a proclamation and disseminate this message in all their cities and in Jerusalem: "Go to the hill country and bring back olive branches and branches of wild olive trees, myrtle trees, date palms, and other leafy trees to construct temporary shelters, as it is written."

Olive Trees » Assyria abounded in

2 Kings 18:32

until I come and take you to a land just like your own -- a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Then you will live and not die. Don't listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, "The Lord will rescue us."

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

1 Kings 6:23

In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubs of olive wood; each stood 15 feet high.

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

Genesis 8:11

When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

Olive Trees » Cultivated » On the sides of mountains

Matthew 21:1

Now when they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, at the Mount 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 you must let it lie fallow and leave it alone so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave any animal in the field may eat; you must do likewise with your vineyard and your olive grove.

Olive Trees » Grafting of, alluded to

Romans 11:24

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?

Olive Trees » Often grew wild

Romans 11:17

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in the richness of the olive root,

Olive Trees » Illustrative » Of children of pious parents

Olive Trees » Shaken when fully ripe

Isaiah 17:6

There will be some left behind, like when an olive tree is beaten -- two or three ripe olives remain toward the very top, four or five on its fruitful branches," says the Lord God of Israel.

Olive Trees » Good for the service of God and man

Judges 9:9

But the olive tree said to them, 'I am not going to stop producing my oil, which is used to honor gods and men, just to sway above the other trees!'

Olive Trees » Often cast its flowers

Job 15:33

Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms.

Olive Trees » Often suffered from caterpillars

Amos 4:9

"I destroyed your crops with blight and disease. Locusts kept devouring your orchards, vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees. Still you did not come back to me." The Lord is speaking!

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