They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, that had good shade; therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery. Verse Concepts

Ezekiel 6:13

Then shall ye know that I am the LORD when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they offered sweet savour to all their idols. Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » The ancients often » Rested » Under

Judges 6:11

And the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah that pertained unto Joash, the Abiezrite, and his son Gideon threshed 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 flour; the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot and brought it out unto him under the oak and presented it. Verse Concepts

1 Kings 13:14

and went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak; and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that didst come from Judah? And he said, I am. Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » The ancients often » Buried their dead under

Genesis 35:8

Then Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak, and the name of it was called Allonbachuth. 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 answered, I may not tarry thus with thee. And taking three darts in his hand, he 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 met the slaves of David. And Absalom rode upon a 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 the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away. And a certain man saw it and told Joab, saying, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged 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

Howl, fir tree, for the cedar is fallen because the magnificent are cut down; howl, O ye oaks of Bashan, for the strong mountain is brought 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 taking a great stone, he set it up there under an oak that was in the sanctuary of the LORD. Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » Jacob buried his family idols under

Genesis 35:4

So they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their power and all their earrings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » Idolaters often made idols of

Isaiah 44:14

He shall hew down cedars and take the cypress and the oak, and he shall strengthen himself with the trees of the forest; he shall plant a fir tree, which shall be nourished with the rain. Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » The tyrian made oars of

Ezekiel 27:6

Of the oaks of Bashan they have made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim. Verse Concepts

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

Isaiah 1:30

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

Oak Trees » Illustrative » Of the church

Isaiah 6:13

But yet in it shall remain a tenth, and it shall return and shall be razed; as the teil tree and as the oak, of which the stump remains alive when they are cut down, likewise in these his stump shall remain holy seed. Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » Described as » Casting its leaves in winter

Isaiah 6:13

Oak Trees » The hill of bashan celebrated for