Topic
Oak-Tree, The
21 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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- Genesis 35:4Torrey Jacob buried his family idols under
And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
- Genesis 35:8Torrey THE ANCIENTS OFTEN — Buried their dead under
But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.
- Joshua 24:26Torrey THE ANCIENTS OFTEN — Erected monuments under
¶ And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
- Judges 6:11Torrey THE ANCIENTS OFTEN — Rested under
¶ And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi-ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
- Judges 6:19Torrey THE ANCIENTS OFTEN — Rested under
¶ And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.
- 2 Samuel 18:9Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Thick spreading
¶ And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went…
- 2 Samuel 18:10Torrey Absalom in his flight intercepted by, and suspended from
And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
- 2 Samuel 18:14Torrey Absalom in his flight intercepted by, and suspended from
Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
- 1 Kings 13:14Torrey THE ANCIENTS OFTEN — Rested under
And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
- 1 Chronicles 10:12Torrey THE ANCIENTS OFTEN — Buried their dead under
They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
- Isaiah 1:29Torrey THE ANCIENTS OFTEN — Performed idolatrous rites under
For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
- Isaiah 1:30Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — (Fading,) of the wicked under judgments
For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
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- Isaiah 2:13 Torrey The hill of Bashan celebrated for
- Isaiah 6:13 Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Casting its leaves in winter
- Isaiah 44:14 Torrey Idolaters often made idols of
- Isaiah 57:5 Torrey THE ANCIENTS OFTEN — Performed idolatrous rites under
- Ezekiel 6:13 Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Thick spreading
- Ezekiel 27:6 Torrey The people of Tyre made oars of
- Hosea 4:13 Torrey THE ANCIENTS OFTEN — Performed idolatrous rites under
- Amos 2:9 Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Strong
- Zechariah 11:2 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of wicked rulers
In the topical indexes
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 26 references, grouped by sub-topic
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.