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So they issued a proclamation and had it circulated in all their towns and in Jerusalem: 'Go into the hills and bring branches of olive, pine, myrtle, palm and other leafy trees to make shelters, as it says in the book.' (Nehemiah 8, 15)
they captured fortified towns and a fertile countryside, they took possession of houses stocked with all kinds of goods, of storage-wells ready-hewn, of vineyards, olive groves and fruit trees in profusion; so they ate, were full, grew fat and revelled in your great goodness. (Nehemiah 9, 25)
she and her companions put on wreaths of olive. Then she took her place at the head of the procession and led the women as they danced. All the men of Israel, armed and garlanded, followed them, singing hymns. (Judith 15, 13)
Like the vine, he will shake off his unripe fruit, like the olive tree, shed his blossom. (Job 15, 33)
But I, like a flourishing olive tree in the house of God, put my trust in God's faithful love, for ever and ever. (Psalms 52, 8)
Your wife a fruitful vine in the inner places of your house. Your children round your table like shoots of an olive tree. (Psalms 128, 3)
he went to King Demetrius in about the year one hundred and fifty-one and presented him with a golden crown and a palm, together with the traditional olive branches from the Temple; there, for that day, he let the matter rest. (2 Maccabees 14, 4)
I have grown tall as a palm in En-Gedi, as the rose bushes of Jericho; as a fine olive in the plain, as a plane tree, I have grown tall. (Ecclesiasticus 24, 14)
like an olive tree loaded with fruit, like a cypress soaring to the clouds; (Ecclesiasticus 50, 10)
nothing will remain but pickings, as when an olive tree is beaten; two or three berries left on the topmost bough, four or five berries on the branches of the tree -- declares Yahweh, God of Israel. (Isaiah 17, 6)
For at the heart of earth's life, among the peoples, it is as at the beating of the olive trees, as at the gleaning of the grapes when the grape harvest is over. (Isaiah 24, 13)
"Green olive-tree covered in fine fruit", was Yahweh's name for you. With a shattering noise he has set fire to it, its branches are broken.' (Jeremiah 11, 16)