Thematic Bible: Fence


Thematic Bible



“Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and put a wall around it and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey. Verse ConceptsJourneyOccupationsTowersVineyardWallsFortsExcavationTreading GrapesLeasinglent

Your guardsmen are like the swarming locust.
Your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers
Settling in the stone walls on a cold day.
The sun rises and they flee,
And the place where they are is not known.
Verse ConceptsGrasshoppersHot WeatherCold WeatherUnknown ThingsEvil Fleeing

“So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge and it will be consumed;
I will break down its wall and it will become trampled ground.
Verse ConceptsWallsFigurative Fields

He who digs a pit may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a wall. Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedDigging Pits

The way of the lazy is as a hedge of thorns,
But the path of the upright is a highway.
Verse ConceptsHighwayIdlenessSluggardsThornsTroubleProcrastinationHard TasksWorking Hard And Not Being Lazysloth

“Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns,
And I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.
Verse ConceptsMan's WaysThornsPaths Of The WickedNot FindingHard TasksWeedPathsroadblocks

He dug it all around, removed its stones,
And planted it with the choicest vine.
And He built a tower in the middle of it
And also hewed out a wine vat in it;
Then He expected it to produce good grapes,
But it produced only worthless ones.
Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsFortsExcavationWineskins And Vats

Then the angel of the Lord stood in a narrow path of the vineyards, with a wall on this side and a wall on that side. Verse ConceptsVineyardNarrow Things

How long will you assail a man,
That you may murder him, all of you,
Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
Verse ConceptsEvil PlansWalls

I passed by the field of the sluggard And by the vineyard of the man lacking sense, And behold, it was completely overgrown with thistles; Its surface was covered with nettles, And its stone wall was broken down.

It will be a day for building your walls.
On that day will your boundary be extended.
Verse ConceptsBuildingSpreadingRebuilding JerusalemWork Ethicbordersconstructionrebuilding

I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one. Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessWallsGapsFigurative WallsNo One AvailableMasculinitybridges