Thematic Bible: Hedges
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Hedges » Placed around » Gardens
A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
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He violently takes away his tent, as from a garden. And he lays waste his meeting-place. Jehovah has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion. In the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of heavy judgments
He built a wall around me so that I am unable to go out. He made a heavy chain for me.
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Behold, I (Jehovah) will fence her way with thorns. I will build a wall against her that she will not find her path.
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Hedges » Making up gaps in, alluded to
I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.
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You have not gone up into the gaps (broken places) of the wall around the house of Israel. You did not build the wall to stand in the battle on the day of Jehovah.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of holy ordinances, &c
Listen to another illustration. A master of a house made a vineyard, and put a wall around it. He made a wine press and built a tower. Then he rented it to workers and traveled to another country.
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He dug the soil all around and removed its stones. He planted it with the choicest vine. And he built a tower in the middle of it and also hewed out a wine vat in it. Then he expected it to produce good grapes, but it only produced worthless ones.
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Hedges » Placed around » Vineyards
Listen to another illustration. A master of a house made a vineyard, and put a wall around it. He made a wine press and built a tower. Then he rented it to workers and traveled to another country.
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He taught them with illustrations: A man had a vineyard planted. He built a wall around it. He prepared a place for crushing out the wine and put up a tower. Then he rented it out to field workers, and went into another country.
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Hedges » Illustrative » (broken down,) of the taking away of protection
Here is what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge and break down the wall that protects it. I will let wild animals eat it and trample it down.
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Why did you break down the stone fences around this vine? All who pass by are picking its fruit.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of numerous afflictions
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged (fenced) in?
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God has blocked my path so that I cannot go on. He has made my path dark.
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Hedges » Danger of breaking through
He that digs a pit will fall into it. A serpent will bite whoever breaks through a hedge.
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Hedges » Antiquity of
They were the potters who lived at Netaim and Gederah; they stayed there and worked for the king.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of the way of the slothful
The way of the lazy is as a hedge of thorns. But the way of the righteous is a wide path.
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Hedges » Difficulty of breaking through
The way of the lazy is as a hedge of thorns. But the way of the righteous is a wide path.
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Hedges » Desolation caused by removing
Why did you break down the stone fences around this vine? All who pass by are picking its fruit. Wild boars from the forest graze on it. Wild animals devour it.
Hedges » Afforded protection in danger
Cry loudly, Heshbon, because Ai is destroyed. Cry, people of Rabbah, put on your sackcloth, and mourn. Run back and forth between the walls. Milcom will be taken away into captivity with its priests and officials.
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Hedges » Poor travellers sought rest under
The master told the servant, 'Go to the country roads and lanes and make people come so my house will be full.'
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Hedges » Filled with grasshoppers
Your princes are as the locusts, and your officers as the swarms of grasshoppers. They encamp in the hedges on a cold day, but when the sun shines they flee away and no one knows where they go.
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Hedges » Designed for protection
He dug the soil all around and removed its stones. He planted it with the choicest vine. And he built a tower in the middle of it and also hewed out a wine vat in it. Then he expected it to produce good grapes, but it only produced worthless ones.
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Hedges » Often made of thorns
The best of them is as a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge! Your watchmen's day has come. Your visitation has come. Now you will be perplexed.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of God's protection
You have always protected him and his family and everything he owns. You bless everything he does. You have given him enough cattle to fill the whole country.
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Serpents » Infest » Hedges
He that digs a pit will fall into it. A serpent will bite whoever breaks through a hedge.
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