Bible Cross References
fenced it
Exodus 33:16
How will anyone know that you are pleased with your people and with me if you do not go with us? Your presence with us will distinguish us from any other people on earth."
Numbers 23:9
From the high rocks I can see them; I can watch them from the hills. They are a nation that lives alone; They know they are blessed more than other nations.
Deuteronomy 32:8
The Most High assigned nations their lands; he determined where peoples should live. He assigned to each nation a heavenly being,
Deuteronomy 32:9
but Jacob's descendants he chose for himself.
Psalm 44:1-3
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With our own ears we have heard it, O God--- our ancestors have told us about it, about the great things you did in their time, in the days of long ago:
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how you yourself drove out the heathen and established your people in their land; how you punished the other nations and caused your own to prosper.
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Your people did not conquer the land with their swords; they did not win it by their own power; it was by your power and your strength, by the assurance of your presence, which showed that you loved them.
Romans 9:4
They are God's people; he made them his children and revealed his glory to them; he made his covenants with them and gave them the Law; they have the true worship; they have received God's promises;
planted
Jeremiah 2:21
I planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. But look what you have become! You are like a rotten, worthless vine.
the choicest vine
Judges 16:4
After this, Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in Sorek Valley.
and built
Isaiah 1:8
Jerusalem alone is left, a city under siege---as defenseless as a guard's hut in a vineyard or a shed in a cucumber field.
Micah 4:8
And you, Jerusalem, where God, like a shepherd from his lookout tower, watches over his people, will once again be the capital of the kingdom that was yours.
a winepress
Isaiah 63:2
"Why is his clothing so red, like that of someone who tramples grapes to make wine?"
Isaiah 63:3
The LORD answers, "I have trampled the nations like grapes, and no one came to help me. I trampled them in my anger, and their blood has stained all my clothing.
Nehemiah 13:15
At that time I saw people in Judah pressing juice from grapes on the Sabbath. Others were loading grain, wine, grapes, figs, and other things on their donkeys and taking them into Jerusalem; I warned them not to sell anything on the Sabbath.
Revelation 14:18-20
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Then another angel, who is in charge of the fire, came from the altar. He shouted in a loud voice to the angel who had the sharp sickle, "Use your sickle, and cut the grapes from the vineyard of the earth, because the grapes are ripe!"
19
So the angel swung his sickle on the earth, cut the grapes from the vine, and threw them into the wine press of God's furious anger.
20
The grapes were squeezed out in the wine press outside the city, and blood came out of the wine press in a flood two hundred miles long and about five feet deep.
he looked
Isaiah 5:7
Israel is the vineyard of the LORD Almighty; the people of Judah are the vines he planted. He expected them to do what was good, but instead they committed murder. He expected them to do what was right, but their victims cried out for justice.
Isaiah 1:2-4
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The LORD said, "Earth and sky, listen to what I am saying! The children I brought up have rebelled against me.
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Cattle know who owns them, and donkeys know where their master feeds them. But that is more than my people Israel know. They don't understand at all."
4
You are doomed, you sinful nation, you corrupt and evil people! Your sins drag you down! You have rejected the LORD, the holy God of Israel, and have turned your backs on him.
Isaiah 1:21-23
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The city that once was faithful is behaving like a whore! At one time it was filled with righteous people, but now only murderers remain.
22
Jerusalem, you were once like silver, but now you are worthless; you were like good wine, but now you are only water.
23
Your leaders are rebels and friends of thieves; they are always accepting gifts and bribes. They never defend orphans in court or listen when widows present their case.
Deuteronomy 32:6
Is this the way you should treat the LORD, you foolish, senseless people? He is your father, your Creator, he made you into a nation.
Matthew 21:34
When the time came to gather the grapes, he sent his slaves to the tenants to receive his share of the harvest.
Mark 11:13
He saw in the distance a fig tree covered with leaves, so he went to see if he could find any figs on it. But when he came to it, he found only leaves, because it was not the right time for figs.
Mark 12:2
When the time came to gather the grapes, he sent a slave to the tenants to receive from them his share of the harvest.
Luke 13:7
So he said to his gardener, 'Look, for three years I have been coming here looking for figs on this fig tree, and I haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it go on using up the soil?'
Luke 20:10-18
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When the time came to gather the grapes, he sent a slave to the tenants to receive from them his share of the harvest. But the tenants beat the slave and sent him back without a thing.
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So he sent another slave; but the tenants beat him also, treated him shamefully, and sent him back without a thing.
12
Then he sent a third slave; the tenants wounded him, too, and threw him out.
13
Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my own dear son; surely they will respect him!'
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But when the tenants saw him, they said to one another, 'This is the owner's son. Let's kill him, and his property will be ours!'
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So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. "What, then, will the owner of the vineyard do to the tenants?" Jesus asked.
16
"He will come and kill those men, and turn the vineyard over to other tenants." When the people heard this, they said, "Surely not!"
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Jesus looked at them and asked, "What, then, does this scripture mean? 'The stone which the builders rejected as worthless turned out to be the most important of all.'
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Everyone who falls on that stone will be cut to pieces; and if that stone falls on someone, that person will be crushed to dust."
1 Corinthians 9:7
What soldiers ever have to pay their own expenses in the army? What farmers do not eat the grapes from their own vineyard? What shepherds do not use the milk from their own sheep?
wild grapes
Deuteronomy 32:32
Their enemies, corrupt as Sodom and Gomorrah, are like vines that bear bitter and poisonous grapes,
Deuteronomy 32:33
like wine made from the venom of snakes.
Hosea 10:1
The people of Israel were like a grapevine that was full of grapes. The more prosperous they were, the more altars they built. The more productive their land was, the more beautiful they made the sacred stone pillars they worship.