Fig Tree, The

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• Jeremiah 29:17 OT

  Yahweh of Armies says: “Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that can’t be eaten, they are so bad.

• Genesis 3:7 OT

  Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.

• John 1:48 NT

  Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”

• John 1:50 NT

  Jesus answered him, “Because I told you, ‘I saw you underneath the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these!”

• Luke 13:7 NT

  He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?’

• Habakkuk 3:17 OT

  For though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:

• Hosea 2:12 OT

  I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,’ and the animals of the field shall eat them.

• Jeremiah 8:13 OT

  “ ‘I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh. No grapes will be on the vine, no figs on the fig tree, and the leaf will fade. The things that I have given them will pass away from them.’ ”

• Haggai 2:19 OT

  Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’ ”

• Jeremiah 5:17 OT

  They will eat up your harvest and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They will eat up your flocks and your herds. They will eat up your vines and your fig trees. They will beat down your fortified cities in which…

• Joel 1:4 OT

  What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.

• Joel 1:7 OT

  He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.

• Joel 1:12 OT

  The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.

• 1 Kings 4:25 OT

  Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

• Micah 4:4 OT

  But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and no one will make them afraid: For the mouth of Yahweh of Armies has spoken.

• Matthew 7:16 NT

  By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

• Jeremiah 24:3 OT

  Then Yahweh asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad are very bad, so bad that can’t be eaten.”

• Jeremiah 24:2-8 OT

  One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. Then Yahweh asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs. The good figs are very…

• Isaiah 34:4 OT

  All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.

• Nahum 3:12 OT

  All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

• Revelation 6:13 NT

  The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind.