Often Found Wild 2 Kings 4:39, Hosea 9:10

Cultivated

In vineyards from the time of Noah Genesis 9:20

On the sides of hills Jeremiah 31:5

In the valleys Song of Solomon 6:11

By the walls of houses Psalm 128:3

Required to Be Dressed and Pruned to Increase Its Leviticus 25:3, 2 Chronicles 26:10, Isaiah 18:5

Canaan Abounded In Deuteronomy 6:11, 8:8

Places Celebrated For

Eshcol Numbers 13:23, 24

Sibmah Isaiah 16:8, 9

Lebanon Hosea 14:7

Egypt Psalm 78:47, 80:8

The dwarf and spreading vine particularly esteemed Ezekiel 17:6

Of Sodom Bad and Unfit for Use Deuteronomy 32:32

Often Degenerated Isaiah 5:2, Jeremiah 2:21

Frequently Injured by Hail and Frost Psalm 78:47, 105:32, 33

Foxes Destructive To Song of Solomon 2:15

The Wild Boar Destructive To Psalm 80:13

The Fruit Of

Called grapes Genesis 40:10

Peculiarly sour when unripe Jeremiah 31:30

Eaten fresh from the tree Deuteronomy 23:24

Eaten dried 1 Samuel 25:18, 30:12

Sold in the markets Nehemiah 13:15

Made into wine Deuteronomy 32:14, Matthew 26:29

The Wood Of, Fit Only for Burning Ezekiel 15:2-5

Young Cattle Fed on Its Leaves and Tender Shoots Genesis 49:11

Probably Produced Two Crops of Fruit in the Year Numbers 13:20

Perfumed the air with the fragrance of its flowers Song of Solomon 2:13, Hosea 14:7

God Made, Fruitful for His People When Obedient Joel 2:22, Zechariah 8:12

Frequently Made Unfruitful as a Punishment Jeremiah 8:13, Hosea 2:12, Joel 1:7, 12, Haggai 2:19

Sometimes cast its fruit before it came to perfection Job 15:33, Malachi 3:11

Nazarites Prohibited Eating Any Part Of Numbers 6:3, 4

Illustrative

Of Christ John 15:1, 2

Of Israel Psalm 80:8, Isaiah 5:2, 7

(Its fruitful branches,) of saints John 15:5

(Of unfruitful branches,) of mere professors John 15:2, 6

(Its quick growth,) of the growth of saints in grace Hosea 14:7

(Its rich clusters,) of the graces of the church Song of Solomon 7:8

(Pruning of,) of God's purifying his people by afflictions John 15:2

(Worthlessness of its wood,) of the unprofitableness, of the wicked Ezekiel 15:6, 7

(Unfruitful,) of the wicked Hosea 10:1

(Sitting under one's own) of peace and prosperity 1 Kings 4:25, Micah 4:4, Zechariah 3:10

Proverbial allusion to fathers eating the unripe fruit of Jeremiah 31:29, 30, Ezekiel 18:2