Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant and enjoy the fruit.
Parallel translations
- WEB Again you will plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria. The planters will plant, and will enjoy its fruit.
- KJV Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.
- NKJV You shall yet plant vines on the mountains of Samaria; The planters shall plant and eat them as ordinary food.
- NASB “Again you will plant vineyards On the hills of Samaria; The planters will plant And will enjoy the fruit.
- NLT Again you will plant your vineyards on the mountains of Samaria and eat from your own gardens there.
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Quick answer
Israel will again plant vineyards in Samaria and enjoy their fruit. Settled, peaceful prosperity will return to the land.
Overview
Planting vineyards and enjoying their produce signals security, blessing, and the reversal of judgment's desolation. The mention of Samaria highlights the restoration of the northern territory. It pictures the shalom God grants His restored people, where labor is no longer cursed by loss.
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- Amos 9:14I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
- Mic 4:4And each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken.
- Isa 65:21–22They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
- Lev 19:23–25When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden. For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten.
- Deut 28:30You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.
- Obad 1:19Those from the Negev will possess the mountains of Esau; those from the foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead.
- 1 Sam 21:5David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the equipment of the young men is holy, as it is even on common missions, and all the more at this time.”
- Deut 20:6Has any man planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy its fruit? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man enjoy its fruit.
- Isa 62:8–9The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled.
- Ezek 36:8But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and bear fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come home.
- Zech 3:10On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, you will each invite your neighbor to sit under your own vine and fig tree.’”
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