Hedges
16 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
13 sections
- (Broken Down) of the Taking Away of Protection
- Afforded Protection in Danger
- Antiquity of
- Danger of Breaking Through
- Designed for Protection
- Desolation Caused by Removing
- Difficulty of Breaking Through
- Filled with Grasshoppers
- Making up Gaps In, Alluded To
- Often Made of Thorns
- Placed Around: Gardens
- Placed Around: Vineyards
- Poor Travellers Sought Rest Under
(Broken Down) of the Taking Away of Protection
- Psalm 80:12 Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?
- Isaiah 5:5 Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.
Afforded Protection in Danger
- Jeremiah 49:3 Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.
Antiquity of
- 1 Chronicles 4:23 These were the potters who lived at Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the service of the king.
Danger of Breaking Through
- Ecclesiastes 10:8 He who digs a pit may fall into it, and he who breaches a wall may be bitten by a snake.
Designed for Protection
- Isaiah 5:2 He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!
Desolation Caused by Removing
- Psalm 80:12–13 Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit? …
Difficulty of Breaking Through
- Proverbs 15:19 The way of the slacker is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.
Filled with Grasshoppers
- Nahum 3:17 Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.
Making up Gaps In, Alluded To
- Ezekiel 13:5 You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it would stand in the battle on the Day of the LORD.
- Ezekiel 22:30 I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.
Often Made of Thorns
- Micah 7:4 The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.
Placed Around: Gardens
- Song of Solomon 4:12 My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.
- Lamentations 2:6 He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
Placed Around: Vineyards
- Matthew 21:33 Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
- Mark 12:1 Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a wine vat, and built a watchtower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
Poor Travellers Sought Rest Under
- Luke 14:23 So the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.
Related topics
Hedges of Heavy JudgmentsHedges of Holy OrdinancesHedges of Numerous AfflictionsHedges of God's ProtectionHedges of the Way of the SlothfulHedge
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.