Thematic Bible: Fence


Thematic Bible



Hear ye another parable. There was a certain man who was a house-ruler, who planted a vineyard, and placed a hedge around it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and leased it to farmers, and went on a journey. Verse ConceptsJourneyOccupationsTowersVineyardWallsFortsExcavationTreading GrapesLeasinglent

Thy rulers are as the locusts, and thy marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers, which encamp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun arises they flee away, and their place is not known where they are. Verse ConceptsGrasshoppersHot WeatherCold WeatherUnknown ThingsEvil Fleeing

And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge of it, and it shall be eaten up. I will break down the wall of it, and it shall be trodden down. Verse ConceptsWallsFigurative Fields

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

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

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths. Verse ConceptsMan's WaysThornsPaths Of The WickedNot FindingHard TasksWeedPathsroadblocks

And he dug 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 hewed out a winepress in it. And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought fo Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsFortsExcavationWineskins And Vats

Then the agent of LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side. Verse ConceptsVineyardNarrow Things

How long will ye set upon a man, that ye may kill, all of you, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence? Verse ConceptsEvil PlansWalls

I went by the field of the sluggard, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding. And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns. The face of it was covered with nettles, and the stone wall of it was broken down.

A day for building thy walls! In that day the decree shall be far removed. Verse ConceptsBuildingSpreadingRebuilding JerusalemWork Ethicbordersconstructionrebuilding

And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none. Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessWallsGapsFigurative WallsNo One AvailableMasculinitybridges