The Olive-Tree
27 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
27 sections
- (Gleaning of) of the Remnant of Grace
- (When Wild) the Gentiles
- Assyria Abounded In
- Bearing Goodly Fruit
- Beaten to Remove the Fruit
- Canaan Abounded In
- Cultivated in Olive Yards
- Cultivated: Among Rocks
- Cultivated: On the Sides of Mountains
- Failure of, a Great Calamity
- Fair and Beautiful
- Fat and Unctuous
- Fruit of, During Sabbatical Year Left for the Poor
- Gleaning of, Left for the Poor
- Good for the Service of God and Man
- Grafting of, Alluded To
- Green
- Kings of Israel Largely Cultivated
- Often Cast Its Flowers
- Often Cast Its Fruit
- Often Grew Wild
- Often Suffered from Caterpillars
- Oil Procured From
- Probably Origin of Its Being the Emblem of Peace
- Pruning of, Alluded To
- Shaken when Fully Ripe
- The Fruit of, Trodden in Presses to Extract the Oil
(Gleaning of) of the Remnant of Grace
- Isaiah 17:6 Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten— two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.
- Isaiah 24:13 So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
(When Wild) the Gentiles
- Romans 11:17 Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root,
- Romans 11:24 For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
Assyria Abounded In
- 2 Kings 18:32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own— a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey— so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he …
Bearing Goodly Fruit
- Jeremiah 11:16 The LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed.
- James 3:12 My brothers, can a fig tree grow olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
Beaten to Remove the Fruit
- Deuteronomy 24:20 When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
Canaan Abounded In
- Deuteronomy 6:11 with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant— and when you eat and are satisfied,
- Deuteronomy 8:8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;
Cultivated in Olive Yards
- 1 Samuel 8:14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his servants.
- Nehemiah 5:11 Please restore to them immediately their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and houses, along with the percentage of the money, grain, new wine, and oil that you have been assessing them.”
Cultivated: Among Rocks
- Deuteronomy 32:13 He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag,
Cultivated: On the Sides of Mountains
- Matthew 21:1 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent out two disciples,
Failure of, a Great Calamity
- Habakkuk 3:17–18 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, …
Fair and Beautiful
- Jeremiah 11:16 The LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed.
- Hosea 14:6 His shoots will sprout, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.
Fat and Unctuous
- Judges 9:9 But the olive tree replied, ‘Should I stop giving my oil that honors both God and man, to hold sway over the trees?’
- Romans 11:17 Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root,
Fruit of, During Sabbatical Year Left for the Poor
- Exodus 23:11 but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.
Gleaning of, Left for the Poor
- Deuteronomy 24:20 When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
Good for the Service of God and Man
- Judges 9:9 But the olive tree replied, ‘Should I stop giving my oil that honors both God and man, to hold sway over the trees?’
Grafting of, Alluded To
- Romans 11:24 For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
Green
- Jeremiah 11:16 The LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed.
Kings of Israel Largely Cultivated
- 1 Chronicles 27:28 Baal-hanan the Gederite was in charge of the olive and sycamore trees in the foothills. Joash was in charge of the stores of olive oil.
Often Cast Its Flowers
- Job 15:33 He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
Often Cast Its Fruit
- Deuteronomy 28:40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.
Often Grew Wild
- Romans 11:17 Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root,
Often Suffered from Caterpillars
- 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.
Oil Procured From
- Exodus 27:20 And you are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
- Deuteronomy 8:8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;
Probably Origin of Its Being the Emblem of Peace
- Genesis 8:11 And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
Pruning of, Alluded To
- Romans 11:18–19 do not boast over those branches. If you do, remember this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. …
Shaken when Fully Ripe
- Isaiah 17:6 Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten— two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.
The Fruit of, Trodden in Presses to Extract the Oil
- Micah 6:15 You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.
- Haggai 2:16 from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.
Related topics
The Olive-Tree of ChristThe Olive-Tree used for MakingThe Olive-Tree of the RighteousThe Olive-Tree of Children of Pious ParentsThe Olive-Tree of the Jewish ChurchThe Olive-Tree of the Two Witnesses
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.