They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow of it is good. Therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery. Verse Concepts

Ezekiel 6:13

And ye shall know that I am LORD when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places wh Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » The ancients often » Rested » Under

Judges 6:11

And the agent of LORD came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite. And his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. Verse Concepts

Judges 6:19

And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal. He put the flesh in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it. Verse Concepts

1 Kings 13:14

And he went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. And he said to him, Are thou the man of God who came from Judah? And he said, I am. Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » The ancients often » Buried their dead under

Genesis 35:8

And Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak. And the name of it was called Allon-bacuth. Verse Concepts

1 Chronicles 10:12

all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days. Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » Absalom in his flight intercepted by, and suspended from

2 Samuel 18:14

Then Joab said, I will not delay thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak. Verse Concepts

2 Samuel 18:9-10

And Absalom chanced to meet the servants of David. And Absalom was riding upon his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak. And he was taken up between sky and earth, and t And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.

Oak Trees » Illustrative » Of wicked rulers

Isaiah 2:13

and upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, Verse Concepts

Zechariah 11:2

Wail, O fir tree, for the cedar is fallen, because the fine ones are destroyed. Wail, O ye oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down. Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » Described as » Thick spreading

2 Samuel 18:9

Ezekiel 6:13

Oak Trees » The ancients often » Erected monuments under

Joshua 24:26

And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God. And he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of LORD. Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » Jacob buried his family idols under

Genesis 35:4

And they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand, and the rings which were in their ears. And Jacob hid them under the oak that was by Shechem. Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » Idolaters often made idols of

Isaiah 44:14

He hews down cedars for him, and takes the holm tree and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it. Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » The tyrian made oars of

Ezekiel 27:6

Of the oaks of Bashan they have made thine oars. They have made thy benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the isles of Kittim. Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » Illustrative » (fading,) of the wicked under judgments

Isaiah 1:30

For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water. Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » Illustrative » Of the church

Isaiah 6:13

And if there be yet a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be eaten up. As a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains when they are felled, so the holy seed is the stock of it. Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » Described as » Casting its leaves in winter

Isaiah 6:13

And if there be yet a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be eaten up. As a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains when they are felled, so the holy seed is the stock of it. Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » The hill of bashan celebrated for

Isaiah 2:13

and upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » Illustrative » Of strong and powerful men

Amos 2:9

Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks, yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » Described as » Strong