PARABLES

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• 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.’

• 2 Samuel 12:1

  Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.

• 2 Samuel 12:2

  The rich man had very many flocks and herds,

• 2 Samuel 12:3

  but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was like a daughter to him.

• 2 Samuel 12:4

  A traveler came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to prepare for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man’s lamb, and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”

• 2 Samuel 12:5

  David’s anger burned hot against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this deserves to die!

• 2 Samuel 12:6

  He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!”

• 2 Samuel 14:5

  The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

• 2 Samuel 14:6

  Your servant had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

• 2 Samuel 14:7

  Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.”

• 2 Samuel 14:8

  The king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you.”

• 2 Samuel 14:9

  The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, may the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”

• 2 Samuel 14:10

  The king said, “Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he will not bother you any more.”

• 2 Samuel 14:11

  Then she said, “Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”

• 2 Samuel 14:12

  Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.” He said, “Say on.”

• 1 Kings 11:30

  Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces.

• 1 Kings 11:31

  He said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you

• 1 Kings 11:32

  (but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);

• 1 Kings 20:39

  As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, “Your servant went out into the middle of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, ‘Guard this man! If by any means he is missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’

• 1 Kings 20:40

  As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone.” The king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be. You yourself have decided it.”

• 1 Kings 20:41

  He hurried, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized that he was one of the prophets.

• 2 Kings 14:9

  Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.

• Psalms 80:8

  You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.

• Psalms 80:9

  You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.

• Psalms 80:10

  The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars.

• Psalms 80:11

  It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.

• Psalms 80:12

  Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

• Psalms 80:13

  The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.

• Psalms 80:14

  Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,

• Psalms 80:15

  the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.

• Psalms 80:16

  It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

• Isaiah 5:1

  Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

• Isaiah 5:2

  He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

• Isaiah 5:3

  “Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.

• Isaiah 5:4

  What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

• Isaiah 5:5

  Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.

• Isaiah 5:6

  I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”

• Isaiah 5:7

  For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

• Isaiah 27:2

  In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard!

• Isaiah 27:3

  I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.

• Isaiah 28:23

  Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech!

• Isaiah 28:24

  Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?

• Isaiah 28:25

  When he has leveled its surface, doesn’t he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?

• Isaiah 28:26

  For his God instructs him in right judgment, and teaches him.

• Isaiah 28:27

  For the dill are not threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.

• Isaiah 28:28

  Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don’t grind it.

• Isaiah 28:29

  This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

• Jeremiah 13:12

  “Therefore you shall speak to them this word: ‘Yahweh, the God of Israel says, “Every bottle shall be filled with wine.”’ They will tell you, ‘Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?’

• Jeremiah 13:13

  Then tell them, ‘Yahweh says, “Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David’s throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.

• Jeremiah 13:14

  I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together,” says Yahweh: “I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.”’”

• Jeremiah 17:5

  Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 17:6

  For he shall be like a bush in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

• Jeremiah 17:7

  “Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 17:8

  For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

• Jeremiah 17:9

  The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

• Jeremiah 17:10

  “I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

• Jeremiah 19:10

  “Then you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men who go with you,

• Jeremiah 19:11

  and shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.

• Jeremiah 19:12

  Thus will I do to this place,” says Yahweh, “and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth:

• Jeremiah 19:13

  and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.”’”

• Jeremiah 19:14

  Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Yahweh’s house, and said to all the people:

• Ezekiel 19:1

  “Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

• Ezekiel 19:2

  and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness. She couched among lions, in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs.

• Ezekiel 19:3

  She brought up one of her cubs. He became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.

• Ezekiel 19:4

  The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

• Ezekiel 19:5

  “‘Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.

• Ezekiel 19:6

  He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.

• Ezekiel 19:7

  He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, with its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.

• Ezekiel 19:8

  Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him. He was taken in their pit.

• Ezekiel 19:9

  They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.

• Ezekiel 24:3

  Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Set on the cauldron, set it on, and also pour water into it:

• Ezekiel 24:4

  gather its pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.

• Ezekiel 24:5

  Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile of wood for the bones under the cauldron; make it boil well; yes, let its bones be boiled within it.

• Jonah 4:10

  Yahweh said, “You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.

• Jonah 4:11

  Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”

• Acts 10:10

  He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance.

• Acts 10:11

  He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,

• Acts 10:12

  in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky.

• Acts 10:13

  A voice came to him, “Rise, Peter, kill and eat!”

• Acts 10:14

  But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”

• Acts 10:15

  A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”

• Acts 10:16

  This was done three times, and immediately the vessel was received up into heaven.

• Galatians 4:22

  For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman.

• Galatians 4:23

  However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

• 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.

• Galatians 4:25

  For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.

• Galatians 4:26

  But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

• Galatians 4:27

  For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you that don’t travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband.”

• Galatians 4:28

  Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

• Galatians 4:29

  But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

• Galatians 4:30

  However what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman.”

• Galatians 4:31

  So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman.

• 2 Timothy 2:3

  You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

• 2 Timothy 2:4

  No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

• 2 Timothy 2:5

  Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

• 2 Timothy 2:6

  The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.

• 2 Timothy 2:20

  Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor, and some for dishonor.

• 2 Timothy 2:21

  If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.

• James 1:23

  For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;

• James 1:24

  for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

• James 1:25

  But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.