You will know that I am Adonai when their slain men are lying among their idols around their altars on every high hill, on every mountaintop, under every green tree, under every thick pistachio tree, wherever they offered sweet-smelling sacrifices to appease their idols.

“Human being, why should wood from a grapevine be better than some other kind of wood, than some branch that one might find among the trees of the forest?

“So Adonai Elohim says this: ‘Like wood from the vine among the trees of the forest, which I consign to the fire as fuel, so I give those living in Yerushalayim.

Then all the trees of the field will know that I, Adonai, bring down the tall tree and raise up the low tree, wither the green tree and make the withered tree bear fruit. I, Adonai, have spoken; and I will do it.’”

for after I had brought them into the land, which I had raised my hand in pledge to give them, they noted all its high hills and leafy trees and offered there their sacrifices; there they made offerings that provoked my anger, there they set out their sweet aromas, and there they poured out their drink offerings.

say to the Negev forest: ‘Hear the word of Adonai. Adonai Elohim says, “I will light a fire in you; it will devour every tree in you, green and dry alike; a blazing, unquenchable flame that will scorch every face from the Negev to the north.

The water nourished it; the deep made it grow, sending its rivers round the place where it was planted, sending its streams to all the trees in the fields.

So it grew taller than any other tree, its branches grew in number and spread far and wide, for it had plenty of water to make them grow.

No cedar in God’s garden was like it, no cypress tree could compare with its boughs, no chestnut tree could rival its branches, no tree in God’s garden could match its beauty.

I made it so beautiful, with its many branches; all trees in ‘Eden, God’s garden, envied it.’

This is to warn all the trees growing near water not to grow so tall, not to lift their crowns above the leafy boughs, and all that take up water not to reach up in their height. For they are all given over to death, to the depths of the underworld, along with human beings, with those who descend to the pit.’

“Here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘On the day he descended to Sh’ol, I caused the abyss to mourn and cover itself for him; I held back its rivers, so that its deep waters were stopped. I made the L’vanon mourn for him, and all the field trees withered because of him.

At the sound of his fall I made the nations shake, when I hurled him down to Sh’ol with those who descend to the pit. All the trees of ‘Eden, the pick of the best in the L’vanon, all that take up water, were consoled in the underworld.

Which of the trees of ‘Eden was your equal in glory or size? Yet you will be brought down to the underworld along with the trees of ‘Eden. You will lie there among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword. This is Pharaoh and his hordes,’ says Adonai Elohim.”

The trees in the field will bear their fruit and the soil its produce, and they will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am Adonai, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the power of those who turned them into slaves.

I will multiply the yield of fruit from the trees and increase production in the fields, so that you never again suffer the reproach of famine among the nations.

There were narrow windows to the guardrooms and to their supports facing inward all along the gate; also the vestibules had windows all around facing inward. On each side support were [carvings of] palm trees.

Its windows, vestibule and palm trees were the same size as those at the east gate. Seven steps led up to it [from the outside], while its vestibule was toward the inside.

Seven steps led up to it [from the outside], while its vestibule was toward the inside. It had palm trees, one on each side, on its supports.

this vestibule faced the outer courtyard, palm trees were on its supports, and it had eight steps leading up to it.

Its vestibule faced the outer courtyard, palm trees were on its supports, both on the one side and on the other; and it had eight steps leading up to it.

Its supports faced the outer courtyard; palm trees were on its supports, both on the one side and on the other; and it had eight steps leading up to it.

consisting of k’ruvim and palm trees, with a palm tree between every two k’ruvim. Every keruv had two faces;

so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on its one side and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on its other side — this was the pattern all the way around the house.

The k’ruvim and palm trees ran from the ground to above the door, and likewise on the wall of the sanctuary.