Thematic Bible: Oak


Thematic Bible



Absalom happened to run into David's soldiers. While Absalom was trying to get away on his mule, it ran under the thick branches of a giant oak tree, and Absalom's head got caught in the tree! As his mule ran out from under him, Absalom was left hanging above the ground. Verse ConceptsMulesBackCovering HeadsRiding MulesHairdreadlocks

"There's no reason to wait for you!" Joab retorted. Then he took three spears in his hand and stabbed Absalom in the heart while he was still alive, dangling from the branches of the oak tree. Verse ConceptsAssassinations, CompletedHeart, HumanSpearsPiercingsThree Other Things

Rebekah's nurse Deborah died and was buried there, under the oak tree that was below Beth-el. That's why the place was named Allon-bacuth. Verse ConceptsBurials, Places OfNursesTreesOaksMourning Death

So they handed over to Jacob all their foreign gods on which they had been depending, along with the rings that they were wearing on their ears. Jacob buried them under the oak that grew near Shechem. Verse ConceptsEarringsOrnamentsRingsForeign ThingsOaksHidden ThingsPutting Away Other Godsjewelry

Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorites in front of them, though their height seemed like a cedar, though their strength seemed like an oak, but whose fruit I destroyed from above and the roots from beneath. Verse ConceptsAmoritesCedarRootsGiantsOaks

You'll be like an oak whose leaf is withering, like an unwatered garden. Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalWicked Described AsDry PlacesPeople WitheredOaks

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