Thematic Bible: Hedges
Thematic Bible
Hedges » Placed around » Gardens
A closed garden is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
Vau And he has violently taken away his tabernacle as if it were of a garden; he has destroyed his congregation; the LORD has caused the solemnities and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion and has rejected 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 make a wall that she shall not find her paths.
Hedges » Making up gaps in, alluded to
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 no one.
Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.
Hedges » Illustrative » Of holy ordinances, &c
Hear another parable: There was a certain husband of a house who planted a vineyard and hedged it round about and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a far country,
and he had fenced 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 made 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 certain husband of a house who planted a vineyard and hedged it round about and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a far country,
And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard and set a hedge about it and dug a place for the winefat and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went far away.
Hedges » Illustrative » (broken down,) of the taking away of protection
And now go to; 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 its wall, and it shall be trodden down:
Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all those who pass by the way pluck her?
Hedges » Illustrative » Of numerous afflictions
He has walled off my way and I shall not pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.
Hedges » Danger of breaking through
He that digs a pit shall fall into it, and whosoever breaks a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
Hedges » Antiquity of
These were the potters and those that dwelt among plants and hedges, who dwelt there with the king for his work.
Hedges » Illustrative » Of the way of the slothful
The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns, but the path of the righteous is made plain.
Hedges » Difficulty of breaking through
The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns, but the path of the righteous is made plain.
Hedges » Desolation caused by removing
Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all those who pass by the way pluck her? The boar out of the wood wastes it, and the wild beast of the field devours it.
Hedges » Afforded protection in danger
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled; cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird yourselves with sackcloth; lament and run to and fro by the hedges, for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
Hedges » Poor travellers sought rest under
And the lord said unto the slave, Go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in that my house may be filled.
Hedges » Filled with grasshoppers
Thy princes shall be as the locusts and thy captains as the great grasshoppers which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun arises, they flee away, and it is not known where they were.
Hedges » Designed for protection
and he had fenced 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 made 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 as a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, thy visitation, comes; now shall be their confusion.
Hedges » Illustrative » Of God's protection
Hast thou not made a hedge about him and about his house and about all that he has on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands; therefore, his substance has increased in the land.
Serpents » Infest » Hedges
He that digs a pit shall fall into it, and whosoever breaks a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.