What Does the Bible Say About Shrubs?

Song of Solomon 2:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.

Isaiah 41:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive. I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together,

Genesis 21:8-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing. So she said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.” And the thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of his son. But God said to Abraham, “Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named. ...

1 Peter 1:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,

Matthew 6:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,

Hosea 14:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon;

Ezekiel 17:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then he took of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil. He placed it beside abundant waters. He set it like a willow twig,

Isaiah 55:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall make a name for the Lord, an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”

Isaiah 35:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus;

1 Kings 19:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

1 Kings 7:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Its thickness was a handbreadth, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.

1 Kings 4:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall. He spoke also of beasts, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fish.

Genesis 30:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then Jacob took fresh sticks of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the sticks.

Acts 5:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree.

Luke 19:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was about to pass that way.

Luke 12:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Luke 11:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Mark 11:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it.

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Matthew 13:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field.

Matthew 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Matthew 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.

Micah 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.

Micah 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;

Joel 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It has laid waste my vine and splintered my fig tree; it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down; their branches are made white.

Ezekiel 31:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor the fir trees equal its boughs; neither were the plane trees like its branches; no tree in the garden of God was its equal in beauty.

Ezekiel 17:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord; I bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it.”

Ezekiel 6:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And you shall know that I am the Lord, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing aroma to all their idols.

Isaiah 55:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Isaiah 40:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A voice says, “Cry!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.

Song of Solomon 7:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit. Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,

Song of Solomon 7:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.

Song of Solomon 6:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I went down to the nut orchard to look at the blossoms of the valley, to see whether the vines had budded, whether the pomegranates were in bloom.

Song of Solomon 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

Song of Solomon 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of Engedi.

Ecclesiastes 12:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

They are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets—

Proverbs 7:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Psalm 137:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

On the willows there we hung up our lyres.

Psalm 103:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field;

Psalm 37:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I have seen a wicked, ruthless man, spreading himself like a green laurel tree.

Psalm 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

Job 40:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For his shade the lotus trees cover him; the willows of the brook surround him.

Job 30:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

They pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes, and the roots of the broom tree for their food.

2 Chronicles 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. And my servants will be with your servants,

2 Kings 6:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.

1 Kings 7:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And on the tops of the pillars was lily-work. Thus the work of the pillars was finished.

1 Kings 6:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

On them he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the carved work.

1 Kings 6:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So also he made for the entrance to the nave doorposts of olivewood, in the form of a square,

Judges 9:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the olive tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my abundance, by which gods and men are honored, and go hold sway over the trees?’

Judges 9:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The trees once went out to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’

Judges 4:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment.

Numbers 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins.

Leviticus 14:52 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Thus he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the fresh water and with the live bird and with the cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn.

Leviticus 14:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop.

Exodus 30:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord said to Moses, “Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (of each shall there be an equal part),

Exodus 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.

Exodus 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Genesis 9:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.

Genesis 3:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

Genesis 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Genesis 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.

Genesis 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.

64 Bible Verses about Shrubs

Song of Solomon 2:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 41:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 21:8-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 1:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hosea 14:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 17:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 55:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Kings 19:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Genesis 30:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 5:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Luke 11:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 11:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 13:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Matthew 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Micah 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Joel 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 31:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 17:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Isaiah 55:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 40:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 7:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Song of Solomon 6:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Ecclesiastes 12:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 7:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 137:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Job 40:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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2 Chronicles 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Kings 6:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Judges 9:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Judges 4:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 14:52 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Exodus 30:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Genesis 9:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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