Thematic Bible: Oak


Thematic Bible



Now Absalom met the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a massive tree, and his head was caught in [the thick branches of] the tree; and he was left hanging [in midair] between heaven and earth, while the mule that had been under him kept going. Verse ConceptsMulesBackCovering HeadsRiding MulesHairdreadlocks

Joab said, “I will not waste time with you.” So he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was still alive [and caught] in the midst of the tree. Verse ConceptsAssassinations, CompletedHeart, HumanSpearsPiercingsThree Other Things

Now Deborah, [who once was] Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried below Bethel under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth (Oak of Weeping). Verse ConceptsBurials, Places OfNursesTreesOaksMourning Death

So they gave Jacob all the [idols and images of the] foreign gods they had and the rings which were in their ears [worn as charms against evil], and Jacob buried them under the oak tree near Shechem. Verse ConceptsEarringsOrnamentsRingsForeign ThingsOaksHidden ThingsPutting Away Other Godsjewelry


“Yet it was I [not the false gods] who destroyed the Amorite before them,
Though his height was like the height of the cedars,
And he was as strong as the oaks;
I even destroyed his fruit above and his root below.
Verse ConceptsAmoritesCedarRootsGiantsOaks


For you will be like an oak whose leaf withers and dies
And like a garden that has no water.
Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalWicked Described AsDry PlacesPeople WitheredOaks