Thematic Bible: Fence
Thematic Bible
Fence » Hedge
Hear another parable; There was a certain householder, who planted a vineyard, and hedged it around, and digged a wine-press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a remote country:
Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which settle in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
And now come; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall of it, and it shall be trodden down:
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoever breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
Fence » Made of stone walls
And he fenced 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 made a wine-press therein: and he expected that it would bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; And lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face of it, and its stone wall was broken down.
In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.
Fence » Figurative
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.