You shall yet plant vines on the mountains of Samaria; The planters shall plant and eat them as ordinary food.
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.
- BSB Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant and enjoy the fruit.
- 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 bring my people Israel back from captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit.
- Mic 4:4But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and no one will make them afraid: For the mouth of Yahweh of Armies has spoken.
- Isa 65:21–22They will build houses, and inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
- Lev 19:23–25“‘When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years they shall be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten.
- Deut 28:30You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.
- Obad 1:19Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.
- 1 Sam 21:5David answered the priest, and said to him, “Truly, women have been kept from us as usual these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was only a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?”
- Deut 20:6What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.
- Isa 62:8–9Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, “Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have labored;
- Ezek 36:8But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot out your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.
- Zech 3:10In that day,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘you will invite every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.’”
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