Oak Tree, The

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Isaiah 2:13 OT

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

• Amos 2:9 OT

  Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

• 2 Samuel 18:9 OT

  Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was…

• Ezekiel 6:13 OT

  You will know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men are among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered pleasant…

• Isaiah 6:13 OT

  If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed, as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stump remains when they are cut down; so the holy seed is its stock.”

• 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.

• 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.

• Judges 6:11 OT

  Yahweh’s angel came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.

• Judges 6:19 OT

  Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.

• 1 Kings 13:14 OT

  He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. He said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” He said, “I am.”

• Genesis 35:8 OT

  Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.

• 1 Chronicles 10:12 OT

  all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

• Joshua 24:26 OT

  Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh.

• Isaiah 1:29 OT

  For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.

• Isaiah 57:5 OT

  you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

• Hosea 4:13 OT

  They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, and your brides commit adultery.

• 2 Samuel 18:10 OT

  A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”

• 2 Samuel 18:14 OT

  Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the middle of the oak.

• Genesis 35:4 OT

  They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

• 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.

• Isaiah 1:30 OT

  For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.