up.

Isa. lxv, 8. Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.

Jer. ii, 21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

Jer. xlix. 9. If grape-gatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning-grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.

Ezek. xvii, 6. 7. And it grew and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a

vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs. There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

Ezek. ix, 10. Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

Hosea x, 1. Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased

the altars...

Obad. 5. If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen til they had enough? if the grape- gatherers came to thee, Would they not leave some grapes? Matth. xxi, 34. And when the time of the fruit drew near, he

sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.

THE LAW OF PLANTING. Deut. xx, 6. And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his bouse, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

YARDS.

Ps. lxxx, 12. Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her

Cant. 1, 6. Look not upon me, because i am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

Isa. xvi, 8. For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmab: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

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upon them.

Mark xii, 1. And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.

THE VINTAGE.

Job xxiv, 10, 11. They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry; Which make oil within their walls, and tread their wine-presses, and suffer thirst.

Isa. xvi, 9, 10. Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh; for the shouting for thy summer fruits, and for thy harvest, is fallen. And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting:

the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.

Isa. Ixiii, 2-5. Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine-fat? I have trodden the wine-press alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my sprinkled upon my garments, and fury; and their blood shall be

will stain all my raiment. For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.

Isa. xvii, 6. Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the

LORD God of Israel.

Jer. vi, 9. Thus saith the LORD of hosts. They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets.

Jer. xlviii, 32, 33. O vine of

Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage. And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to tail from the wine presses: none shall tread with shouting, their shouting shall be no shouting.

Micah vil, 1. Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat; my soul desired the ürst ripe fruit.

Amos ix, 13. Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt

Rev. xiv, 17--19. And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe. And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great wine-press of the wrath of God.

(WINE, See under DIET AND DRESS.)

2nd.

TREES, ETC.

Gen. xlix, 22. Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall.

2 Kings xix, 26. were as the green herb, as the They grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

Job viii, 16, 17. He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. His roots are wrapt about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.

Job xiv, 7, 9. For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

Job xviii, 16. His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

Job xix, 10. He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone; and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

Ps. xcii, 14. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing.

Isa. x, 19. And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.

Isa. x 24. Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be

sown; yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

Ezek. xv, 6. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Ezek. xxxi. 14. To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among trees stand up in their height, all the thick boughs, neither their that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

Luke xxiii, 31. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?

little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

Isa. xxxill, 9. The earth mournashamed and hewn down; Sharon eth and languisheth; Lebanon is is like a wilderness; and Bashau and Carmel shake off their fruits.

FELLING.

ward the south, or toward the Eccles. xi, 3. If the tree fall to

north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.

the LORD of hosts, shall lop the Isa. x, 33, 34. Behold, the Lord, bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled. And he shall cut down

the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

Matth. iii, 10. And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

FORESTS.

HARETH.

Gad said unto David, Abide not 1 Sam. xxii, 5. And the prophet in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. David departed, and came into Then the forest of Hareth.

EPHRAIM.

went out into the field against 2 Sam. xviii, 6. So the people Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim

LEBANON.

house of the forest of Lebanon; 1 Kings vii, 2. He built also the the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went 1 Kings x, 17. And he made to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.

Cant. v. 13. His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers; his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.

Cant. vi, 2. 3. 7. My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lies. I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeta among the lilies. As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.

Cant. viii, 14. Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roo or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. (Vegetable productions in Orchards and Fields. See under AGRICULTURE. Pages 12, 13.)

TREES AND HERBS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE. ALMOND.

Gen. xii, 11. And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be So now, do this; take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrhi, nuts,

and almon s.

The al

Eccles. xii, 5. mond tree shall flourish, because man goeth to his long home; and the mourners go about the streets.

Jer. 1, 11. Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.

ALMUG OR ALGUM.

1 Kings x, 12. And the king made of the almug-trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and palteries for singers: there came no such almug-trees,nor were seen unto this day.

Joel i, 12. The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withercd.....

ASH.

Isa. xliv, 14. He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.

BAY.

Ps. xxxvii, 85. I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green buy tree.

Box.

cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

Jer. viii, 12, 13. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush; therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD. I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the flgtree; and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.

Amos iv, 9. I have smitten you The pine with blasting and mildew: when

Isa. xll, 19. and the box tree together.

CEDAR.

made silver to be in Jerusalem as 1 Kings x, 27. And the king stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.

your gardens, and your vineyards, and your fig-trees, and your olivetrees, increased, the pulmer-worm returned unto me, saith the LORD. devoured them: yet have ye not

Mark xi, 19-21. And when even was come, he went out of the city. And in the morning, as they piss

by, they saw the fig-tree dried up from the roots. And Peter, calling to remembrance, saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig-tree which thou cursedst is withered away.

Ps. 1xxx, 9--11. Thou preparedsted room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branchies unto the river.

P3. civ, 16. The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted.

CHESNUT

Ezek. xxxi, 8. . . . And the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

CYPRESS.

Isa. xliv, 14. He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak.....

FIG.

Deut. vill, 8. A land of wheat and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive and honey.

Isa. xxx, 16, 17. Hearken not to Hezekiali; for thus saith the king of Assyria. Make an agree ment with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern; Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

Jer. v, 17. And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat; they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds; they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees; they shall impoverish thy fenced

717

Mark xill, 28-31. Now. learn a parable of the fig-tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near: So ye, in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is aigh, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, That this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done. Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

James iii, 12. Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive-berries? either a vine, fig? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh,

FIR.

1 Kings v, 10. So Iliram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees, according to all his desire.

Isa. xiv, 8. Yea, the fir trees reJoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.

Zech. xi, 1 2. Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may deyour thy cedars. Howl, fir-tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.

JUNIPER.

1 Kings xix, 4. But he [Elijah] himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die. . . . . .

edst not; when thou shalt have eaten, and be full.

Isa. xvii, 6. Yet gleaning-grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.

Jer. xi, 16. The LORD called thy name, A greer olive-tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

PALM.

Exod. xv, 27. And they came to Elin, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten pain trees: and they encamped there by the waters.

Ps. xcii, 12. The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. . . . .

Jer. x, 5. They are upright as the palm-tree, but speak not; they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

OLIVE.

and a gatherer of sycainore fruit.

Luke xix, 4. And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.

TEIL.

Isa. vi, 13. As a tell tree, and as an oak, whose subtheir leaves: so the holy seed shall stance is in them, when they cast be the substance thereof.

WILLOW.

Job xl, 22. The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.

Isa. xliv, 4. And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.

Ezek. xvii, 5. He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.

HERBS AND SHRUBS MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE. ALOES AND CALAMUS, MYRRH,

SAFFRON, SPIKENARD. Cant, iii, 6. Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like

pillars of smoke, perfumed with my rh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

Cant. iv, 14. . . . Myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices. Prov. vii, 17. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, alves, and

Cinnamon.

John xix, 39. And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.

ANISE, CUMMIN, AND MINT.

Matth. xxiii, 23. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law.

CUCUMBER, GARLICK, LEEKS,

MELON, ONIONS.

Num. xi, 5. We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick.

CASSIA.

Ps. xlv, 8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

FITCHES.

Isa. xxviii 27. For the fitches