Thematic Bible: Under trees


Thematic Bible



Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named Allon-bacuth.

They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.


Who inflame yourselves among the oaks,
Under every luxuriant tree,
Who slaughter the children in the ravines,
Under the clefts of the crags?

“For long ago I broke your yoke
And tore off your bonds;
But you said, ‘I will not serve!’
For on every high hill
And under every green tree
You have lain down as a harlot.


Please let a little water be brought and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree;

Now the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day.