Common English Bible
Now if you have been attacking a city for some time, fighting against it and trying to conquer it, don’t destroy its trees by cutting them down with axes. You can eat from those trees; don’t cut them down! Do you think a tree of the field is some sort of warrior to be attacked by you in battle?
Common English Bible
That said, if you know that a tree is not a food-producing tree, you are allowed to destroy it, cutting it down and using it in the siege against the city that is fighting against you until it falls.
Living Bible
Figures of Guardian Angels, palm trees, and open flowers were carved on all the walls of both rooms of the Temple,
Easy-to-Read Version
The king made Israel very rich. In the city of Jerusalem, silver was as common as rocks and cedar wood was as common as the many fig trees growing on the hills.New Living Translation
The king made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stone. And valuable cedar timber was as common as the sycamore-fig trees that grow in the foothills of Judah.
New Living Translation
Baal-hanan from Geder was in charge of the king’s olive groves and sycamore-fig trees in the foothills of Judah. Joash was responsible for the supplies of olive oil.
New Living Translation
The king made silver and gold as plentiful in Jerusalem as stone. And valuable cedar timber was as common as the sycamore-fig trees that grow in the foothills of Judah.
New Living Translation
The king made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stone. And valuable cedar timber was as common as the sycamore-fig trees that grow in the foothills of Judah.
Living Bible
He had said also that a proclamation should be made throughout the cities of the land, especially in Jerusalem, telling the people to go to the hills to get branches from olive, myrtle, palm, and fig trees and to make huts in which to live for the duration of the feast.
Common English Bible
Those who tend a fig tree will eat its fruit, and those who look after their master will be honored.Easy-to-Read Version
People who take care of fig trees are allowed to eat the fruit. In the same way, people who take care of their masters will be rewarded.New Living Translation
As workers who tend a fig tree are allowed to eat the fruit, so workers who protect their employer’s interests will be rewarded.
New Living Translation
They said, “We will replace the broken bricks of our ruins with finished stone, and replant the felled sycamore-fig trees with cedars.”
Common English Bible
All the stars of heaven will dissolve, the skies will roll up like a scroll, and all the stars will fall, like a leaf withering from a vine, like fruit from a fig tree.Easy-to-Read Version
The skies will be rolled shut like a scroll, and the stars will die and fall like leaves from a vine or a fig tree. All the stars in the sky will rot away.New Living Translation
The heavens above will melt away and disappear like a rolled-up scroll. The stars will fall from the sky like withered leaves from a grapevine, or shriveled figs from a fig tree.
New Living Translation
One face—that of a man—looked toward the palm tree on one side. The other face—that of a young lion—looked toward the palm tree on the other side. The figures were carved all along the inside of the Temple,
Common English Bible
Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. In its first season, like the first fruit on the fig tree, I saw your ancestors. But they came to Baal-peor, and worshipped a thing of shame; they became detestable like the thing they loved.Easy-to-Read Version
Israel Is Ruined by Its Worship of Idols
“At the time I, the Lord, found Israel, they were like fresh grapes in the desert. They were like the first figs on a fig tree at the beginning of the season. But when they came to Baal Peor, they changed. So I had to cut them off like rotten fruit. They became like the terrible things that they loved.
Common English Bible
Is the seed yet in the granary— or the vine, the fig tree, or the pomegranate— or has the olive tree not borne fruit? From this day forward, I will bless you.Easy-to-Read Version
Your seed for planting is still in the barn. And look at the vines, the fig trees, and the pomegranate and olive trees. They have not yet produced any fruit. But beginning today, I will bless you.’”New Living Translation
I am giving you a promise now while the seed is still in the barn. You have not yet harvested your grain, and your grapevines, fig trees, pomegranates, and olive trees have not yet produced their crops. But from this day onward I will bless you.”
Living Bible
You can detect them by the way they act, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit. You need never confuse grapevines with thorn bushes or figs with thistles.
Common English Bible
When the disciples saw it, they were amazed. “How did the fig tree dry up so fast?” they asked.Living Bible
The disciples were utterly amazed and asked, “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?”Easy-to-Read Version
When the followers saw this, they were very surprised. They asked, “How did the fig tree dry up and die so quickly?”New Living Translation
The disciples were amazed when they saw this and asked, “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?”
Common English Bible
Jesus responded, “I assure you that if you have faith and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree. You will even say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the lake.’ And it will happen.
Common English Bible
Peter remembered and said to Jesus, “Rabbi, look how the fig tree you cursed has dried up.”Living Bible
Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said to the tree on the previous day and exclaimed, “Look, Teacher! The fig tree you cursed has withered!”Easy-to-Read Version
Peter remembered the tree and said to Jesus, “Teacher, look! Yesterday, you told that fig tree to die. Now it is dry and dead!”New Living Translation
Peter remembered what Jesus had said to the tree on the previous day and exclaimed, “Look, Rabbi! The fig tree you cursed has withered and died!”
New Living Translation
So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree beside the road, for Jesus was going to pass that way.
Common English Bible
The stars of the sky fell to the earth as a fig tree drops its fruit when shaken by a strong wind.Living Bible
Then the stars of heaven appeared to be falling to earth—like green fruit from fig trees buffeted by mighty winds.Easy-to-Read Version
The stars in the sky fell to the earth like a fig tree dropping its figs when the wind blows.New Living Translation
Then the stars of the sky fell to the earth like green figs falling from a tree shaken by a strong wind.
Common English Bible
All the people sat under their own vines and fig trees. No one made them afraid.
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