2Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. (Hosea 10:1)) symbol of spiritual union ( John 15:1-5 1I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. (Isaiah 5:2)), “strange vine” ( Jer. 2:21 21Yet 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? (Jeremiah 2:21)),”empty vine” ( Hos. 10:1 1Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images. (Micah 4:4)) rebellious Israel compared to “wild grapes” ( Isa. 5:2 2And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. (Psalm 128:3) Mic. 4:4 4But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it. (1 Kings 4:25) Psa. 128:3 3Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. Subject of frequent metaphor ( Deut. 32:32 32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: (Deuteronomy 32:32)) emblem of felicity and contentment ( 1 Kings 4:25 25And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon. A favorite Oriental plant of many varieties and cultivated from the earliest times ( Gen. 9:20 20And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: (Genesis 9:20) Num. 13:23 23And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
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