Took branches of palm-trees and went out to him, crying, A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!
Then Joshua had them put to death, hanging them on five trees, where they were till evening.
And when the sun went down, they were taken down from the trees, by Joshua's orders, and put into the hole where they had gone to be safe; and great stones were placed at the mouth of the hole, where they are to this day.
These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,
Now Hobab the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, had come up out of the town of palm-trees, with the children of Judah, into the waste land of Arad; and he went and was living among the Amalekites;
And Eglon got together the people of Ammon and Amalek, and they went and overcame Israel and took the town of palm-trees.
Then the trees said to the fig-tree, You come and be king over us.
But the fig-tree said to them, Am I to give up my sweet taste and my good fruit and go waving over the trees?
Then the trees said to the vine, You come and be king over us.
But the vine said to them, Am I to give up my wine, which makes glad God and men, to go waving over the trees?
Then all the trees said to the thorn, You come and be king over us.
And the thorn said to the trees, If it is truly your desire to make me your king, then come and put your faith in my shade; and if not, may fire come out of the thorn, burning up the cedars of Lebanon.
Then Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, with all his people; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand and, cutting down branches of trees, took them and put them on his back. And he said to the people who were with him, Be quick and do as you have seen me do.
One day the trees went out to make a king for themselves; and they said to the olive-tree, Be king over us.
But the olive-tree said to them, Am I to give up my wealth of oil, by which men give honour to God, and go waving over the trees?
And when you have come into the land, and have put in all sorts of fruit-trees, their fruit will be as if they had not had circumcision, and for three years their fruit may not be used for food.
On the first day, take the fruit of fair trees, branches of palm-trees, and branches of thick trees and trees from the riverside, and be glad before the Lord for seven days.
And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.
Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;
And every tenth part of the land, of the seed planted, or of the fruit of trees, is holy to the Lord.
And he made a story for them: See the fig-tree, and all the trees;
And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; and every tree which does not have good fruit will be cut down and put into the fire.
And looking up, he said, I see men; I see them like trees, walking.
And all the people put their clothing down in the way; and others got branches from the trees, and put them down in the way.
And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.
All your walled places will be like fig-trees and your people like the first figs, falling at a shake into the mouth which is open for them.
And that they were to give out an order, and make it public in all their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, Go out to the mountain and get olive branches and branches of field olives and of myrtle, and palm branches and branches of thick trees, to make tents, as it says in the book.
And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.
They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters.
And from Marah they went on to Elim: and in Elim there were twelve water-springs and seventy palm-trees; and they put up their tents there.
The trees of the Lord are full of growth, the cedars of Lebanon of his planting;
Where the birds have their resting-places; as for the stork, the tall trees are her house.
He gave their vines and their fig-trees to destruction, and the trees of their land were broken down.
Hanging our instruments of music on the trees by the waterside.
Mountains and all hills; fruit-trees and all trees of the mountains:
By the voice of the Lord are the cedar-trees broken, even the cedars of Lebanon are broken by the Lord.
At the voice of the Lord the roes give birth, the leaves are taken from the trees: in his Temple everything says, Glory.
They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.
He sent ice for the destruction of their vines; their trees were damaged by the bitter cold.
The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches.
Going through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain.
The good man will be like a tall tree in his strength; his growth will be as the wide-stretching trees of Lebanon.
Let the field be glad, and everything which is in it; yes, let all the trees of the wood be sounding with joy,
These are the two olive-trees and the two lights, which are before the Lord of the earth.
Do no damage to the earth, or the sea, or the trees, till we have put a mark on the servants of our God.
And at the sounding of the first, a rain of ice and fire, mixed with blood, was sent on the earth: and a third part of the earth, and of the trees, and all green grass was burned up.
Cedar-trees are the pillars of our house; and our boards are made of fir-trees.
As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Spikenard and safron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.
I went down into the garden of nuts to see the green plants of the valley, and to see if the vine was in bud, and the pomegranate-trees were in flower.
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