Thematic Bible: Fence


Thematic Bible



"Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a wall around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went abroad. Verse ConceptsJourneyOccupationsTowersVineyardWallsFortsExcavationTreading GrapesLeasinglent

Your imperial guards are like the swarming grasshopper; your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers, settling in the stone walls on a chilly day. The sun rises, and they flee away; no one knows where they went. Verse ConceptsGrasshoppersHot WeatherCold WeatherUnknown ThingsEvil Fleeing

"Now, let me tell you, won't you please, what I'm going to do to my vineyard. "I'm going to take away its protective hedge, and it will be devoured; I'll break down its wall, and it will be trampled. Verse ConceptsWallsFigurative Fields

Whoever digs a pit may fall into it, and whoever breaks through a wall may suffer a snake bite. Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedDigging Pits

The lifestyle of the lazy is like a thorny hedge, but the path taken by the upright is an open highway. Verse ConceptsHighwayIdlenessSluggardsThornsTroubleProcrastinationHard TasksWorking Hard And Not Being Lazysloth

"Look how I'm blocking her path with thorns and building a wall to hinder her, so she can't find her way. Verse ConceptsMan's WaysThornsPaths Of The WickedNot FindingHard TasksWeedPathsroadblocks

He plowed its land and cleared it of stones. Then he planted it with the choicest vines, built a watchtower in the middle of it, and dug a wine vat in it; He expected it to produce good grapes, but it produced only wild ones." Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsFortsExcavationWineskins And Vats

but the angel of the LORD stood on a narrow path that crossed the vineyards. It had walls on both sides of the path. Verse ConceptsVineyardNarrow Things

How long will you rage against someone? Would you attack him as if he were a leaning wall or a tottering fence? Verse ConceptsEvil PlansWalls

I went by the field belonging to a lazy man, by a vineyard belonging to a senseless person. There it was, overgrown with thistles, the ground covered with thorns, its stone wall collapsed.

When the time comes for rebuilding your walls, that time will surely be extended. Verse ConceptsBuildingSpreadingRebuilding JerusalemWork Ethicbordersconstructionrebuilding

I sought for a man among them to build the wall and stand in the breach in my presence on behalf of the land so that it won't be destroyed, but I found no one, Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessWallsGapsFigurative WallsNo One AvailableMasculinitybridges

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