The Fig-Tree
41 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
34 sections
- (Barren) of Mere Professors of Religion
- (Sitting Under One's Own) Prosperity and Peace
- A Species of, Produced Vile and Worthless Fruit
- Abounded in Canaan
- Abounded in Egypt
- Afforded a Thick Shade
- Failure of, a Great Calamity
- Fruit of (Bad) of Wicked Men
- Fruit of (First Ripe) of the Fathers of the Jewish Church
- Fruit of (Good) of Saints
- Fruit of (Untimely and Dropping) the Wicked Ripe for Judgment
- Fruit of Eaten Dried in Cakes
- Fruit of Eaten Fresh from the Tree
- Fruit of First Ripe Esteemed
- Fruit of Gathered and Kept in Baskets
- Fruit of of Good Works
- Fruit of Sent As Presents
- Fruit of Sold in the Markets
- Fruit of Used in the Miraculous Healing of Hezekiah
- Fruit of, Formed After Winter
- Leaves of, Put Forth, a Sign of the Approach of Summer
- Leaves of, Used by Adam for Covering
- Not Found in Desert Places
- Often Grew Wild
- Often Unfruitful
- Produces a Rich Sweet Fruit
- Propagated by the Jews
- Reasonableness of Expecting Fruit Upon, when Full of Leaves
- Required Cultivation
- Sometimes Planted in Vineyards
- The Jews Punished by Barking and Eating of, by Locusts
- The Jews Punished by Enemies Devouring Fruit of
- The Jews Punished by Failure of Fruit On
- The Jews Punished by God's Breaking Down
(Barren) of Mere Professors of Religion
- Matthew 21:19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered.
- Luke 13:6–7 Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it but did not find any. …
(Sitting Under One's Own) Prosperity and Peace
- 1 Kings 4:25 Throughout the days of Solomon, Judah and Israel dwelt securely from Dan to Beersheba, each man under his own vine and his own fig tree.
- Micah 4:4 And each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken.
A Species of, Produced Vile and Worthless Fruit
- Jeremiah 29:17 this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will send against them sword and famine and plague, and I will make them like rotten figs, so bad they cannot be eaten.
Abounded in Canaan
- Numbers 13:23 When they came to the Valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which they carried on a pole between two men. They also took some pomegranates and figs.
- Deuteronomy 8:8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;
Abounded in Egypt
- Psalm 105:33 He struck their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country.
Afforded a Thick Shade
Failure of, a Great Calamity
- Habakkuk 3:17 Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,
Fruit of (Bad) of Wicked Men
- Jeremiah 24:2–8 One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early, but the other basket contained very poor figs, so bad they could not be eaten. …
Fruit of (First Ripe) of the Fathers of the Jewish Church
- Hosea 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.
Fruit of (Good) of Saints
- Jeremiah 24:2–3 One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early, but the other basket contained very poor figs, so bad they could not be eaten. …
Fruit of (Untimely and Dropping) the Wicked Ripe for Judgment
- Isaiah 34:4 All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.
- Nahum 3:12 All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!
- Revelation 6:13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind.
Fruit of Eaten Dried in Cakes
- 1 Samuel 30:12 a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.
Fruit of Eaten Fresh from the Tree
- Matthew 21:18–19 In the morning, as Jesus was returning to the city, He was hungry. …
Fruit of First Ripe Esteemed
- Jeremiah 24:2 One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early, but the other basket contained very poor figs, so bad they could not be eaten.
- Hosea 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.
Fruit of Gathered and Kept in Baskets
- Jeremiah 24:1 After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed …
Fruit of of Good Works
- Matthew 7:16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
Fruit of Sent As Presents
- 1 Samuel 25:18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
- 1 Chronicles 12:40 And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen— abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there …
Fruit of Sold in the Markets
- Nehemiah 13:15 In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. …
Fruit of Used in the Miraculous Healing of Hezekiah
- 2 Kings 20:7 Then Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” So they brought it and applied it to the boil, and Hezekiah recovered.
- Isaiah 38:21 Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”
Fruit of, Formed After Winter
- Song of Solomon 2:11 For now the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.
- Song of Solomon 2:13 The fig tree ripens its figs; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come away, my darling; come away with me, my beautiful one.”
Leaves of, Put Forth, a Sign of the Approach of Summer
- Matthew 24:32 Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its branches become tender and sprout leaves, you know that summer is near.
Leaves of, Used by Adam for Covering
- Genesis 3:7 And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.
Not Found in Desert Places
- Numbers 20:5 Why have you led us up out of Egypt to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain, figs, vines, or pomegranates — and there is no water to drink!”
Often Grew Wild
- Amos 7:14 “I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.
Often Unfruitful
- Luke 13:7 So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’
Produces a Rich Sweet Fruit
- Judges 9:11 But the fig tree replied, ‘Should I stop giving my sweetness and my good fruit, to hold sway over the trees?’
Propagated by the Jews
- Amos 4:9 “I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
Reasonableness of Expecting Fruit Upon, when Full of Leaves
- Mark 11:13 Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, He went to see if there was any fruit on it. But when He reached it, He found nothing on it except leaves, since it was not the season for figs.
Required Cultivation
- Luke 13:8 ‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone again this year, until I dig around it and fertilize it.
Sometimes Planted in Vineyards
- Luke 13:6 Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it but did not find any.
The Jews Punished by Barking and Eating of, by Locusts
- Joel 1:4 What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.
- Joel 1:7 It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.
- Joel 1:12 The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple— all the trees of the orchard— are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.
- Amos 4:9 “I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
The Jews Punished by Enemies Devouring Fruit of
- Jeremiah 5:17 They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which …
The Jews Punished by Failure of Fruit On
- Jeremiah 8:13 I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”
- Haggai 2:19 Is there still seed in the barn? The vine, the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yet yielded fruit. But from this day on, I will bless you.”
The Jews Punished by God's Breaking Down
- Hosea 2:12 I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.