Topic
Hedges
22 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 1 Chronicles 4:23Torrey Antiquity of
These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.
- Job 1:10Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of God's protection
Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
- Job 3:23Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of numerous afflictions
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
- Job 19:8Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of numerous afflictions
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
- Psalms 80:12Torrey Desolation caused by removing
Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
- Psalms 80:13Torrey Desolation caused by removing
The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
- Proverbs 15:19Torrey Difficulty of breaking through
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
- Ecclesiastes 10:8Torrey Danger of breaking through
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
- Song of Songs 4:12Torrey PLACED AROUND — Gardens
A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
- Isaiah 5:2Torrey Designed for protection
And 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.
- Isaiah 5:5Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — (Broken down,) of the taking away of protection
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
- Jeremiah 49:3Torrey Afforded protection in danger
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
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- Lamentations 2:6 Torrey PLACED AROUND — Gardens
- Lamentations 3:7 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of heavy judgments
- Ezekiel 13:5 Torrey Making up gaps in, alluded to
- Ezekiel 22:30 Torrey Making up gaps in, alluded to
- Hosea 2:6 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of heavy judgments
- Micah 7:4 Torrey Often made of thorns
- Nahum 3:17 Torrey Filled with grasshoppers
- Matthew 21:33 Torrey PLACED AROUND — Vineyards
- Mark 12:1 Torrey PLACED AROUND — Vineyards
- Luke 14:23 Torrey Poor travellers sought rest under
In the topical indexes
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 26 references, grouped by sub-topic
- Antiquity of 1Ch 4:23
- Designed for protection Isa 5:2
- Often made of thorns Mic 7:4
- PLACED AROUND
- Difficulty of breaking through Pr 15:19
- Danger of breaking through Ec 10:8
- Desolation caused by removing Ps 80:12,13
- Filled with grasshoppers Na 3:17
- Poor travellers sought rest under Lu 14:23
- Afforded protection in danger Jer 49:3
- Making up gaps in, alluded to Eze 13:5; 22:30
- ILLUSTRATIVE
Texts: Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.