Forests

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Isaiah 44:14 OT

  He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a cypress tree, and the rain nourishes it.

• Isaiah 9:18 OT

  For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

• Psalms 50:10 OT

  For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.

• Psalms 104:20 OT

  You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

• Isaiah 56:9 OT

  All you animals of the field, come to devour, all you animals in the forest.

• Jeremiah 5:6 OT

  Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their…

• Micah 5:8 OT

  The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, among many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to…

• 1 Samuel 14:25 OT

  All the people came into the forest; and there was honey on the ground.

• 1 Samuel 14:26 OT

  When the people had come to the forest, behold, honey was dripping, but no one put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.

• Micah 7:14 OT

  Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the middle of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

• Isaiah 2:13 OT

  for all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, for all the oaks of Bashan,

• Ezekiel 27:6 OT

  They have made your oars of the oaks of Bashan. They have made your benches of ivory inlaid in cypress wood from the islands of Kittim.

• Zechariah 11:2 OT

  Wail, cypress tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down.

• 1 Samuel 22:5 OT

  The prophet Gad said to David, “Don’t stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah.” Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.

• 2 Samuel 18:6 OT

  So the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.

• 2 Samuel 18:8 OT

  For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

• 1 Kings 7:2 OT

  For he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.

• 1 Kings 10:17 OT

  he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went to one shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

• 2 Kings 19:23 OT

  By your messengers, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon, and I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress…

• Isaiah 37:24 OT

  By your servants, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. I…

• Isaiah 21:13 OT

  The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites.

• Ezekiel 20:46 OT

  “Son of man, set your face toward the south, and preach toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South.

• Ezekiel 20:47 OT

  Tell the forest of the South, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word: The Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree. The burning flame will not be quenched, and all faces from the…

• Nehemiah 2:8 OT

  and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will occupy.” The king granted my requests,…