They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because its shadow is good: therefore your daughters shall commit harlotry, and your spouses shall commit adultery. Verse Concepts

Ezekiel 6:13

Then shall you 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 did offer sweet incense to all their idols. Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » The ancients often » Rested » Under

Judges 6:11

And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by 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 meat 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, Are you the man of God that came from Judah? And he said, I am. Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » The ancients often » Buried their dead under

Genesis 35:8

But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbacuth. Verse Concepts

1 Chronicles 10:12

They arose, all the valiant men, 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 said Joab, I cannot tarry thus with you. And he took three spears 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 met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught fast in the oak, and he was left hanging between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away. 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 cypress; for the cedar has fallen; because the mighty trees are ruined: wail, O you oaks of Bashan; for the thick 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 took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » Jacob buried his family idols under

Genesis 35:4

And they gave unto Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand, 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 hews himself down cedars, and takes the cypress and the oak, which he secures for himself among the trees of the forest: he plants a pine, and the rain does nourish it. Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » The tyrian made oars of

Ezekiel 27:6

Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars; the company of Ashurites have made your planks of inlaid ivory, brought out of the coasts of Kittim. Verse Concepts

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

Isaiah 1:30

For you 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

But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be laid waste: as a terebinth tree, and as an oak, whose stump remains, when they are cut down: so the holy seed shall be its stump. Verse Concepts

Oak Trees » Described as » Casting its leaves in winter

Isaiah 6:13

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 destroyed I 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