ALLEGORY

Passages on this topic · 12

• Judges 9:8

  The trees set out to anoint a king over themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’

• Judges 9:9

  “But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I stop producing my oil, with which they honor God and man by me, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’

• Judges 9:10

  “The trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and reign over us.’

• Judges 9:11

  “But the fig tree said to them, ‘Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’

• Judges 9:12

  “The trees said to the vine, ‘Come and reign over us.’

• Judges 9:13

  “The vine said to them, ‘Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’

• Judges 9:14

  “Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘Come and reign over us.’

• Judges 9:15

  “The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’

• Isaiah 11:6

  The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them.

• Isaiah 11:7

  The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox.

• Isaiah 11:8

  The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.

• Galatians 4:24

  These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.