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On the first day you shall gather fruit of majestic trees, branches of palms, and boughs of leafy trees and valley willows. Then for a week you shall make merry before the Lord, your God.
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I will give you your rains in due season, so that the land will yield its crops, and the trees their fruit;
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so that your strength will be spent in vain; your land will bear no crops, and its trees no fruit.
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All tithes of the land, whether in grain from the fields or in fruit from the trees, belong to the Lord; they are sacred to the Lord.
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Like palm trees spread out, like gardens beside a river, Like aloes the Lord planted, like cedars beside water;
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Setting out from Marah, they came to Elim; at Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.
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a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, of olive trees and of honey,
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Destroy entirely all the places where the nations you are to dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
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For example, if someone goes with a neighbor to a forest to cut wood, wielding an ax to cut down a tree, and its head flies off the handle and hits the neighbor a mortal blow, such a person may take refuge in one of these cities and live.
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Trees of a Besieged City. When you are at war with a city and have to lay siege to it for a long time before you capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them. You may eat of them, but you must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human beings, that they should be included in your siege?
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However, those trees which you know are not fruit trees you may destroy. You may cut them down to build siegeworks against the city that is waging war with you, until it falls.
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Corpse of a Criminal. If a man guilty of a capital offense is put to death and you hang him on a tree,
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his corpse shall not remain on the tree overnight. You must bury it the same day; anyone who is hanged is a curse of God. You shall not defile the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you as a heritage.
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If, while walking along, you come across a bird’s nest with young birds or eggs in it, in any tree or on the ground, and the mother bird is sitting on them, you shall not take away the mother bird along with her brood.
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When you knock down the fruit of your olive trees, you shall not go over the branches a second time; let what remains be for the resident alien, the orphan, and the widow.
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Though you have olive trees throughout your country, you will have no oil for ointment, for your olives will drop off.
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Buzzing insects will take possession of all your trees and the crops of your soil.
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He had the king of Ai hanged on a tree until evening; then at sunset Joshua ordered the body removed from the tree and cast at the entrance of the city gate, where a great heap of stones was piled up over it, which remains to the present day.
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Thereupon Joshua struck and killed the kings, and hanged them on five trees, where they remained hanging until evening.
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At sunset Joshua commanded that they be taken down from the trees and be thrown into the cave where they had hidden; over the mouth of the cave large stones were placed, which remain until this very day.
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She used to sit under Deborah’s palm tree, between Ramah and Bethel in the mountain region of Ephraim, where the Israelites came up to her for judgment.
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One day the trees went out to anoint a king over themselves. So they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’
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But the olive tree answered them, ‘Must I give up my rich oil, whereby gods and human beings are honored, and go off to hold sway over the trees?’
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Then the trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come; you reign over us!’
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But the fig tree answered them, ‘Must I give up my sweetness and my sweet fruit, and go off to hold sway over the trees?’