Olive

How Nave’s arranged it

• (A fruit tree)
• Branch of, brought by the dove to Noah's arkGenesis 8:11
• Common to the land of CanaanExodus 23:11Deuteronomy 6:11Deuteronomy 8:8
• Israelites commanded to cultivate in the land of promiseDeuteronomy 28:40
• Branches of, used for booths (huts)Nehemiah 8:15
• Bears flowersJob 15:33
• Precepts concerning gleaning the fruit ofDeuteronomy 24:20Isaiah 17:6
• The cherubs made of the wood of1 Kings 6:231 Kings 6:31–33
• Fable ofJudges 9:8
• FIGURATIVE
• Of prosperityPsalms 128:3
• The wild, a figure of the Gentiles; the cultivated, of the JewsRomans 11:17–21Romans 11:24

The passages, in Bible order (20)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 8:11

   And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

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2. Exodus 23:11

   but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.

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3. Exodus 39:37

   the pure gold lampstand with its row of lamps and all its utensils, as well as the oil for the light;

   ›Commentary on Exodus 39:371 voice

   “The pure candlestick - See Clarke’s note on Exo 25:31. The lamps to be set in order - To be trimmed and fresh oiled every day, for the purpose of being lighted in the evening. See Clarke’s note on Exo 27:21.

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4. Leviticus 24:2

   “Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 24:21 voice

   “Command the children of Israel--This is the repetition of a law previously given (Ex 27:20, 21). pure oil olive beaten--or cold-drawn, which is always of great purity. Aaron shall order it from the evening unto the morning--The daily presence of the priests was necessary to superintend the cleaning and trimming.

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5. Deuteronomy 6:11

   with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied,

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6. Deuteronomy 8:8

   a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 8:81 voice

   “A land of wheat, etc. - On the subject of this verse I shall introduce the following remarks, which I find in Mr. Harmer’s Observations on the Fertility of the Land of Judea, vol. iii., p. 243. “Hasselquist tells us that he ate olives at Joppa (upon his first arrival in the Holy Land) which were said to grow on the Mount of Olives, near Jerusalem; and that, independently of their oiliness, they were of the best kind he had tasted in the Levant.

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7. Deuteronomy 24:20

   When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 24:201 voice

   “When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field--The grain, pulled up by the roots or cut down with a sickle, was laid in loose sheaves; the fruit of the olive was obtained by striking the branches with long poles; and the grape clusters, severed by a hook, were gathered in the hands of the vintager. Here is a beneficent provision for the poor.

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8. Deuteronomy 28:40

   You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:401 voice

   “Thou shalt have olive trees throughout thy coasts,.... In the several parts of the land of Canaan, which is therefore called a land of olive oil, Deu 8:8, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; nor any other relations, friends, guests, as was usual at entertainments; see Psa 23:5; for the phrase "thyself" is not in the text.

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9. Judges 9:8

   One day the trees set out to anoint a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’

   ›Commentary on Judges 9:81 voice

   “The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them,.... This is an apologue or fable, and a very fine and beautiful one; it is fitly expressed to answer the design, and the most ancient of the kind, being made seven hundred years before the times of Aesop, so famous for his fables, and exceeds anything written by him.

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10. 1 Kings 6:23

    In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim, each ten cubits high, out of olive wood.

    ›Commentary on 1 Kings 6:232 voices

    “Cherubim - Besides those two made by Moses, Exod. xxv, 18, which were of gold, and far less than these. The Heathens set up images of their gods, and worshipped them. These were designed to represent the servants and attendants of the God of Israel, the holy angels, not to be worshipped themselves, but to shew how great he is whom we worship.

    “Two cherubims - The pattern of the tabernacle was followed (marginal reference), but without servile imitation. The original cherubs were entirely of gold. These, being so much larger, were of wood, merely overlaid with a golden plating. The arrangement of the wings, and the direction of the faces, seem also to have been different. Moses’ cherubim “covered with their wings over the mercy seat;” Solomon’s stretched out theirs to the full 1Ki 6:27, so that the four wings, each five cubits long 1Ki 6:24, extended across the whole sanctuary, the width of which was twenty cubits 1Ki 6:

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11. 1 Kings 6:31–33

    For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, Solomon constructed doors of olive wood with five-sided doorposts.

    ›Commentary on 1 Kings 6:31–332 voices

    “As regards the first part of his statement, namely, "he made little doors of olive wood," he seems to have wanted to explain this more clearly when he added "and two doors of olive wood." For there was one entrance to the oracle. But this …

    “And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree,.... The door of the holy of holies was a two leaved or folding door, made of olive wood; typical of Christ, the door into the church above and below, the way to heaven and eternal life, the true olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall; four cubits, twenty cubits being the breadth of the oracle; or the lintel was four cubits, twenty being the height of it also, 1Ki 6:20.

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12. Nehemiah 8:15

    So they proclaimed this message and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”

    ›Commentary on Nehemiah 8:151 voice

    “The mount - The “mount of Olives” is probably intended. Pine branches - Rather, “branches of the wild olive.” The actual trees named by the Law may have become scarce. It was probably considered that the spirit of the command was kept if branches of trees similar in general character to those named in Leviticus were employed.

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13. Job 15:33

    He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.

    ›Commentary on Job 15:331 voice

    “He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine - The idea here is, that the wicked man shall be like a vine that casts off its grapes while they are yet sour and green, and brings none to perfection; compare the notes at Isa 18:5. Scott renders this, “As when the vine her half-grown berries showers, Or poisoned olive her unfolding flowers.” It would seem from this passage that the vine might be so blasted by a hot wind or other cause, as to cast its unripe grapes to the earth.

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14. Psalms 128:3

    Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.

    ›Commentary on Psalms 128:31 voice

    “Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house,.... The vine being a weak and tender tree, which needs propping and supporting; and often is fastened to the sides of a house, to which the allusion here is; whereunto it cleaves, and on which it runs up, and bears very agreeable fruit; it is properly used to express the weakness and tenderness of the female sex, their fruitfulness in bearing children, and their care of domestic affairs, being keepers at home; see 1Pe 3:

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15. Isaiah 17:6

    Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten—two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

    ›Commentary on Isaiah 17:62 voices

    “Yet gleaning-grapes ... - They shall not all be removed, or destroyed. A “few” shall be left, as a man who is gathering grapes or olives will leave a few that are inaccessible on the topmost boughs, or the furthest branches. Those would be usually the poorest, and so it may be implied that those left in Israel would be among the poorer inhabitants of the land. Two or three - A very few - such as would be left in gathering grapes, or in endeavoring to shake olives from a tree.

    “Commentary on Chapter XVII 1. Damascus - Both of that city and kingdom. A heap - This was fulfilled by Tiglath-pilneser, 2 Kings xvi, 9, although afterwards it was re-edified.

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16. Zechariah 4:2–12

    “What do you see?” he asked. “I see a solid gold lampstand,” I replied, “with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it, with seven spouts to the lamps.

    ›Commentary on Zechariah 4:2–122 voices

    “A candlestick all of gold - This candlestick is formed in some measure after that of the sanctuary, Exo 25:31, Exo 25:32: but in that of the sanctuary there was no bowl, nor seven pipes, nor seven lamps, nor the two olive trees. The two olive trees were to supply the bowl with oil; the bowl was to communicate the oil to the seven pipes; and the seven pipes were to supply the seven lamps.

    “The Hebrew implies that it was the fountain of supply of oil to the lamps. Christ at the head ("on the top") of the Church is the true fountain, of whose fulness of the Spirit all we receive grace (Joh 1:16). his seven lamps--united in one stem; so in Ex 25:32.

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