Thematic Bible: Oak Trees
Thematic Bible
Oak Trees » The ancients often » Performed idolatrous rites under
under every green tree,
who slaughter children in the wadis
below the clefts of the rocks?
you desired,
and you will be embarrassed because of the gardens
you have chosen.
and they burn offerings on the hills,
and under oaks, poplars, and terebinths,
because their shade is pleasant.
And so your daughters act promiscuously
and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
You will all know that I am Yahweh when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and every leafy oak—the places where they offered pleasing aromas to all their idols.
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Oak Trees » The ancients often » Rested » Under
The Angel of the Lord came, and He sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash, the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in the wine vat in order to hide it from the Midianites.
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So Gideon went and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread from a half bushel of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot. He brought them out and offered them to Him under the oak.
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He followed the man of God and found him sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?”
“I am,” he said. Verse Concepts
“I am,” he said. Verse Concepts
Oak Trees » The ancients often » Buried their dead under
Deborah, the one who had nursed and raised Rebekah, died and was buried under the oak south of Bethel. So Jacob named it Oak of Weeping.
all their brave men set out and retrieved the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days.
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Oak Trees » Absalom in his flight intercepted by, and suspended from
Joab said, “I’m not going to waste time with you!” He then took three spears in his hand and thrust them into Absalom’s heart while he was still alive in the oak tree,
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Absalom was riding on his mule when he happened to meet David's soldiers. When the mule went under the tangled branches of a large oak tree, Absalom's head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so he was suspended in midair. One of the men saw [him] and informed Joab. He said, "I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!"
Oak Trees » Illustrative » Of wicked rulers
lofty and lifted up,
against all the oaks of Bashan,
the glorious trees are destroyed!
Wail, oaks of Bashan,
for the stately forest has fallen!
Oak Trees » Described as » Thick spreading
Absalom was riding on his mule when he happened to meet David’s soldiers. When the mule went under the tangled branches of a large oak tree, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so he was suspended in midair.
Verse Concepts
You will all know that I am Yahweh when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and every leafy oak—the places where they offered pleasing aromas to all their idols.
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Oak Trees » The ancients often » Erected monuments under
Joshua recorded these things in the book of the law of God; he also took a large stone and set it up there under the oak next to the sanctuary of the Lord.
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Oak Trees » Jacob buried his family idols under
Then they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and their earrings, and Jacob hid them under the oak near Shechem.
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Oak Trees » Idolaters often made idols of
or he takes a cypress or an oak.
He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest.
He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.
Oak Trees » The tyrian made oars of
They made your deck of cypress wood
from the coasts of Cyprus,
inlaid with ivory.
Oak Trees » Illustrative » (fading,) of the wicked under judgments
whose leaves are withered,
and like a garden without water.
Oak Trees » Illustrative » Of the church
it will be burned again.
Like the terebinth or the oak
that leaves a stump when felled,
the holy seed
Oak Trees » Described as » Casting its leaves in winter
it will be burned again.
Like the terebinth or the oak
that leaves a stump when felled,
the holy seed
Oak Trees » The hill of bashan celebrated for
lofty and lifted up,
against all the oaks of Bashan,
Oak Trees » Illustrative » Of strong and powerful men
his height
and he was as sturdy as the oaks;
I destroyed his fruit
Oak Trees » Described as » Strong
his height
and he was as sturdy as the oaks;
I destroyed his fruit