Thematic Bible: Hedges
Thematic Bible
Hedges » Placed around » Gardens
A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: Jehovah hath caused solemn assembly and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, And hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
Hedges » Illustrative » Of heavy judgments
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.
Hedges » Making up gaps in, alluded to
And I sought for a man among them, that 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.
Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Jehovah.
Hedges » Illustrative » Of holy ordinances, &c
Hear another parable: There was a man that was a householder, who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country.
and he digged it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Hedges » Placed around » Vineyards
Hear another parable: There was a man that was a householder, who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country.
And he began to speak unto them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a pit for the winepress, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country.
Hedges » Illustrative » (broken down,) of the taking away of protection
And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
Why hast thou broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it?
Hedges » Illustrative » Of numerous afflictions
He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
Hedges » Danger of breaking through
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
Hedges » Antiquity of
These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: there they dwelt with the king for his work.
Hedges » Illustrative » Of the way of the slothful
The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; But the path of the upright is made a highway.
Hedges » Difficulty of breaking through
The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; But the path of the upright is made a highway.
Hedges » Desolation caused by removing
Why hast thou broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it? The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.
Hedges » Afforded protection in danger
Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth: lament, and run to and fro among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
Hedges » Poor travellers sought rest under
And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and constrain them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Hedges » Filled with grasshoppers
Thy princes 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 ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Hedges » Designed for protection
and he digged it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Hedges » Often made of thorns
The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.
Hedges » Illustrative » Of God's protection
Hast not thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath, on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
Serpents » Infest » Hedges
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.