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The term "forest" in the Bible often refers to wooded areas that were less dense than modern forests, sometimes resembling what we might consider a grove or a thicket. Forests are mentioned in various contexts throughout the Scriptures, serving as settings for events, symbols of abundance or desolation, and metaphors for spiritual truths.<br><br><b>Geographical Significance</b><br><br>Forests in the biblical landscape were primarily located in the mountainous regions of Israel and surrounding areas. Notable forests include the Forest of Lebanon, renowned for its majestic cedars. These cedars were highly prized for their quality and were used in the construction of significant structures, including Solomon's Temple. In <a href="/1_kings/7-2.htm">1 Kings 7:2</a>, we read about the "House of the Forest of Lebanon," a grand structure built by Solomon, which highlights the importance of these trees: "He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon; its length was a hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, with four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams upon the pillars."<br><br>The forests of Ephraim are another significant mention, particularly in the context of Absalom's rebellion against King David. In <a href="/2_samuel/18-8.htm">2 Samuel 18:8</a>, the forest becomes a place of divine intervention: "The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword."<br><br><b>Symbolic and Metaphorical Uses</b><br><br>Forests in the Bible often symbolize both prosperity and judgment. The lushness of a forest can represent abundance and blessing, as seen in <a href="/isaiah/32-15.htm">Isaiah 32:15</a>, where the transformation of the wilderness into a fertile field is a sign of God's favor: "until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the desert becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field seems like a forest."<br><br>Conversely, the destruction of forests can symbolize God's judgment and desolation. In <a href="/isaiah/10-18.htm">Isaiah 10:18-19</a>, the Lord's judgment is likened to the burning of a forest: "The splendor of his forest and fertile fields it will completely destroy, as when a sick man wastes away. And the remaining trees of his forests will be so few that a child could write them down."<br><br><b>Spiritual Lessons</b><br><br>Forests also serve as metaphors for spiritual truths. In <a href="/jeremiah/21-14.htm">Jeremiah 21:14</a>, God uses the imagery of a forest to convey the certainty of His judgment: "I will punish you as your deeds deserve, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in your forests that will consume everything around you." This passage underscores the idea that God's justice is inescapable and thorough.<br><br>Moreover, the imagery of a forest can be used to describe the complexity and depth of God's creation and wisdom. In <a href="/job/14-7.htm">Job 14:7-9</a>, the resilience of a tree in a forest is used to illustrate hope and renewal: "For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail. If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil, at the scent of water it will bud and put forth twigs like a sapling."<br><br><b>Conclusion</b><br><br>Forests in the Bible are rich with meaning, serving as physical locations, symbols of divine blessing or judgment, and metaphors for spiritual truths. They remind us of the grandeur of God's creation and the profound lessons that can be drawn from the natural world.<a name="smi" id="smi"></a><div class="vheading2">Smith's Bible Dictionary</div><span class="encheading">Forest</span><p>Although Palestine has never been in historical times a woodland country, yet there can be no doubt that there was much more wood formerly than there is a t present, and that the destruction of the forests was one of the chief causes of the present desolation.<a name="eas" id="eas"></a><div class="vheading2">Easton's Bible Dictionary</div>Hebrews ya'ar, meaning a dense wood, from its luxuriance. Thus all the great primeval forests of Syria (<a href="/ecclesiastes/2-6.htm">Ecclesiastes 2:6</a>; <a href="/isaiah/44-14.htm">Isaiah 44:14</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/5-6.htm">Jeremiah 5:6</a>; <a href="/micah/5-8.htm">Micah 5:8</a>). The most extensive was the trans-Jordanic forest of Ephraim (<a href="/2_samuel/18-6.htm">2 Samuel 18:6</a>, 8; <a href="/joshua/17-15.htm">Joshua 17:15</a>, 18), which is probably the same as the wood of Ephratah (<a href="/psalms/132-6.htm">Psalm 132:6</a>), some part of the great forest of Gilead. It was in this forest that Absalom was slain by Joab. David withdrew to the forest of Hareth in the mountains of Judah to avoid the fury of Saul (<a href="/1_samuel/22-5.htm">1 Samuel 22:5</a>). We read also of the forest of Bethel (<a href="/2_kings/2-23.htm">2 Kings 2:23</a>, 24), and of that which the Israelites passed in their pursuit of the Philistines (<a href="/1_samuel/14-25.htm">1 Samuel 14:25</a>), and of the forest of the cedars of Lebanon (<a href="/1_kings/4-33.htm">1 Kings 4:33</a>; <a href="/2_kings/19-23.htm">2 Kings 19:23</a>; <a href="/hosea/14-5.htm">Hosea 14:5</a>, 6).<p>"The house of the forest of Lebanon (<a href="/1_kings/7-2.htm">1 Kings 7:2</a>; <a href="/1_kings/10-17.htm">10:17</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/9-16.htm">2 Chronicles 9:16</a>) was probably Solomon's armoury, and was so called because the wood of its many pillars came from Lebanon, and they had the appearance of a forest. (see <a href="../b/baalbec.htm">BAALBEC</a>.)<p>Hebrews horesh, denoting a thicket of trees, underwood, jungle, bushes, or trees entangled, and therefore affording a safe hiding-place. place. This word is rendered "forest" only in <a href="/2_chronicles/27-4.htm">2 Chronicles 27:4</a>. It is also rendered "wood", the "wood" in the "wilderness of Ziph," in which david concealed himself (<a href="/1_samuel/23-15.htm">1 Samuel 23:15</a>), which lay south-east of Hebron. In Isaiah 17:19 this word is in Authorized Version rendered incorrectly "bough."<p>Hebrews pardes, meaning an enclosed garden or plantation. Asaph is (<a href="/nehemiah/2-8.htm">Nehemiah 2:8</a>) called the "keeper of the king's forest." The same Hebrew word is used <a href="/ecclesiastes/2-5.htm">Ecclesiastes 2:5</a>, where it is rendered in the plural "orchards" (R.V., "parks"), and Cant. 4: 13, rendered "orchard" (R.V. marg., "a paradise").<p>"The forest of the vintage" (<a href="/zechariah/11-2.htm">Zechariah 11:2</a>, "inaccessible forest, " or R.V. "strong forest") is probably a figurative allusion to Jerusalem, or the verse may simply point to the devastation of the region referred to.<p>The forest is an image of unfruitfulness as contrasted with a cultivated field (<a href="/isaiah/29-17.htm">Isaiah 29:17</a>; <a href="/isaiah/32-15.htm">32:15</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/26-18.htm">Jeremiah 26:18</a>; <a href="/hosea/2-12.htm">Hosea 2:12</a>). Isaiah (<a href="/hosea/10-19.htm">10:19</a>, 33, 34) likens the Assyrian host under Sennacherib (q.v.) to the trees of some huge forest, to be suddenly cut down by an unseen stroke. <a name="web" id="web"></a><div class="vheading2">Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary</div>1. (<I>n.</I>) An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated.<p>2. (<I>n.</I>) A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not enclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own.<p>3. (<I>a.</I>) of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan.<p>4. (<I>v. t.</I>) To cover with trees or wood.<a name="isb" id="isb"></a><div class="vheading2">International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</div><span class="encheading">EPHRAIM, FOREST OF</span><p>(ya`ar 'ephrayim):<br><br>The word ya`ar (Hebrew) probably agrees in meaning with the Arabic wa`r, which indicates a rough country, abounding in rocks, stones and scrub, with occasional trees; not a "forest," as we understand the term. Here Absalom was defeated and slain (<a href="/2_samuel/18-6.htm">2 Samuel 18:6</a>, the King James Version "wood of Ephraim"). It must be sought, therefore, East of the Jordan, in the neighborhood of Mahanaim; but no identification is yet possible.<p><span class="encheading">FOREST</span><p>for'-est:<br><br>(1) choresh (compare proper name Harosheth), <a href="/2_chronicles/27-4.htm">2 Chronicles 27:4</a>. In <a href="/1_samuel/23-15.htm">1 Samuel 23:15</a> translated "wood"; in <a href="/isaiah/17-9.htm">Isaiah 17:9</a>, "wood"; in <a href="/ezekiel/31-3.htm">Ezekiel 31:3</a>, "forest-like shade." Applied to any thick growth of vegetation but not necessarily so extensive as (3).<br><br>(2) pardec: <a href="/nehemiah/2-8.htm">Nehemiah 2:8</a>, margin "park"; <a href="/ecclesiastes/2-5.htm">Ecclesiastes 2:5</a>, the King James Version "orchards," the Revised Version (British and American) "parks"; <a href="/songs/4-13.htm">Songs 4:13</a>, English Versions of the Bible "orchard," the Revised Version, margin "paradise." A word of Persian origin signifying probably an enclosure.<br><br>See <a href="../p/paradise.htm">PARADISE</a>.<br><br>(3) ya`ar from root meaning "rugged"; compare Arabic wa`ar, "a rugged, stony region." It is sometimes rendered "forest" and sometimes (but less often in the Revised Version (British and American)) "wood." It is used of certain definite wooded tracts: "the forest in Arabia" (<a href="/isaiah/21-13.htm">Isaiah 21:13</a>, margin "thickets"); "the forest of Carmel" (<a href="/2_kings/19-23.htm">2 Kings 19:23</a> the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "of his fruitful field"); "the forest of Hereth" (<a href="/1_samuel/22-5.htm">1 Samuel 22:5</a>); "the forest of Lebanon" (<a href="/1_kings/7-2.htm">1 Kings 7:2</a>; <a href="/1_kings/10-17.htm">1 Kings 10:17-21</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/9-16.htm">2 Chronicles 9:16-20</a>); "the forest of Ephraim," East of the Jordan (<a href="/2_samuel/18-6.htm">2 Samuel 18:6, 8, 17</a>). The word ya`ar appears also in well-known Kiriath-jearim, "the city of forests," and Mt. Jearim (<a href="/joshua/15-10.htm">Joshua 15:10</a>). Among numerous other references the following may be cited: <a href="/deuteronomy/19-5.htm">Deuteronomy 19:5</a> <a href="/joshua/17-15.htm">Joshua 17:15, 18</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/16-33.htm">1 Chronicles 16:33</a>; <a href="/2_kings/2-24.htm">2 Kings 2:24</a> <a href="/psalms/80-13.htm">Psalm 80:13</a>; <a href="/psalms/83-14.htm">Psalm 83:14</a>; <a href="/psalms/96-12.htm">Psalm 96:12</a>; <a href="/psalms/132-6.htm">Psalm 132:6</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/2-6.htm">Ecclesiastes 2:6</a> <a href="/songs/2-3.htm">Songs 2:3</a> <a href="/1_samuel/7-2.htm">1 Samuel 7:2</a>; <a href="/1_samuel/14-25.htm">1 Samuel 14:25, 26</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/4-29.htm">Jeremiah 4:29</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/46-23.htm">Jeremiah 46:23</a> <a href="/ezekiel/34-29.htm">Ezekiel 34:29</a> <a href="/micah/3-12.htm">Micah 3:12</a>; <a href="/micah/7-14.htm">Micah 7:14</a>.<br><br>(4) cebhakh, from root meaning "to interweave." A "thicket" (<a href="/genesis/22-13.htm">Genesis 22:13</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-7.htm">Jeremiah 4:7</a>); "thicket of trees" (<a href="/psalms/74-5.htm">Psalm 74:5</a>); "thickets of the forest" (<a href="/isaiah/9-18.htm">Isaiah 9:18</a>; <a href="/isaiah/10-34.htm">Isaiah 10:34</a>).<br><br>(5) 'adbhim, "thicket" (<a href="/jeremiah/4-29.htm">Jeremiah 4:29</a>).<br><br>From many references it is evident that Palestine had in Old Testament times much more extensive forests and woodlands than today. For a discussion of the subject see BOTANY.<br><br>E. W. G. Masterman<p><span class="encheading">HERETH, THE FOREST OF</span><p>he'-reth (ya`-ar chareth; Septuagint polis Sareik; the King James Version Hareth): David (<a href="/1_samuel/22-5.htm">1 Samuel 22:5</a>) was told by the prophet Gad to depart from Mizpah of Moab and go to the land of Judah, and he "came into the forest of Hereth." The Septuagint has "city" instead of forest; see also Josephus, Ant, VI, xii, 4. The village Kharas, on an ancient high road, 3 miles Southeast of Aid el ma, probably David's stronghold ADULLAM (which see), may possibly answer to the place (PEF, III, 305, Sh XXI). "Horesh" has been suggested as an alternative reading.<br><br>E. W. G. Masterman<p><span class="encheading">FOREST OF EPHRAIM</span><p>See <a href="../e/ephraim.htm">EPHRAIM</a>.<p><a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/5208.htm"><span class="l">5208. hule -- wood, timber, <b>forest</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> wood, timber, <b>forest</b>. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: hule Phonetic<br> Spelling: (hoo-lay&#39;) Short Definition: wood, fuel Definition: wood, fuel. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5208.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/955.htm"><span class="l">955. Beliar -- &quot;lord of the <b>forest</b>,&quot; Beliar, a name of Satan</span></a> <br><b>...</b> &quot;lord of the <b>forest</b>,&quot; Beliar, a <b>...</b> Word Origin of uncertain origin Definition &quot;lord<br> of the <b>forest</b>,&quot; Beliar, a name of Satan NASB Word Usage Belial (1). Belial. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/955.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/3871.htm"><span class="l">3871. parakalupto -- to cover (by hanging something beside), to <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> 3871 (from 3844 , &quot; close-beside&quot; and 2572 , &quot;hide&quot;) -- properly, hidden close-beside,<br> out of sight; due to someone &quot;missing the <b>forest</b> because too close to <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3871.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/3293a.htm"><span class="l">3293a. yaar -- wood, <b>forest</b>, thicket</span></a><br><b>...</b> 3293, 3293a. yaar. 3293b . wood, <b>forest</b>, thicket. Transliteration: yaar<br> Short Definition: <b>forest</b>. Word Origin from an unused word <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/3293a.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/3293.htm"><span class="l">3293. ya&#39;ar -- wood, <b>forest</b>, thicket</span></a><br>ya&#39;ar. 3292, 3293. ya&#39;ar. 3293a . wood, <b>forest</b>, thicket. Transliteration:<br> ya&#39;ar Phonetic Spelling: (yah&#39;-ar) Short Definition: comb. honeycomb, <b>forest</b>, wood <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/3293.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/2802.htm"><span class="l">2802. Chereth -- a <b>forest</b> in Judah</span></a><br><b>...</b> 2801, 2802. Chereth. 2803 . a <b>forest</b> in Judah. Transliteration: Chereth<br> Phonetic Spelling: (kheh&#39;-reth) Short Definition: Hereth. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/2802.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/2793.htm"><span class="l">2793. choresh -- wood, wooded height</span></a><br><b>...</b> Word Origin of uncertain derivation Definition wood, wooded height NASB Word Usage<br> <b>forest</b> (2), Horesh (4), wooded (1). bough, <b>forest</b>, shroud, wood. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/2793.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/6508.htm"><span class="l">6508. pardes -- a preserve, park</span></a><br><b>...</b> 6507, 6508. pardes. 6509 . a preserve, park. Transliteration: pardes Phonetic<br> Spelling: (par-dace&#39;) Short Definition: <b>forest</b>. <b>...</b> <b>forest</b>, orchard. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/6508.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/3295.htm"><span class="l">3295. yarah -- honeycomb</span></a><br><b>...</b> honey comb, <b>forest</b>. Feminine of ya&#39;ar, and meaning the same -- (honey-) comb, <b>forest</b>.<br> see HEBREW ya&#39;ar. 3294, 3295. yarah. 3296 . Strong&#39;s Numbers. <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/3295.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/5441.htm"><span class="l">5441. sebok -- a thicket</span></a><br><b>...</b> 5440, 5441. sebok. 5442 . a thicket. Transliteration: sebok Phonetic Spelling:<br> (so&#39;-bek) Short Definition: <b>forest</b>. Word Origin from <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/5441.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/3264.htm"><span class="l">3264. yaor -- wood</span></a><br><b>...</b> Word Origin the same as yaar, qv. wood A variation of Ya&#39;areshyah; a <b>forest</b> -- wood.<br> see HEBREW Ya&#39;areshyah. 3263, 3264. yaor. 3265 . Strong&#39;s Numbers. <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/3264.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><p><a href="/library/kingsley/andromeda_and_other_poems/a_new_forest_ballad.htm"><span class="l">A New <b>Forest</b> Ballad</span></a> <br><b>...</b> A NEW <b>FOREST</b> BALLAD. Oh she tripped over Ocknell plain, And down by Bradley Water;<br> And the fairest maid on the <b>forest</b> side Was Jane, the keeper&#39;s daughter. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../kingsley/andromeda and other poems/a new forest ballad.htm</font><p><a href="/library/neander/light_in_the_dark_places/abbot_sturm_of_fulda.htm"><span class="l">Abbot Sturm of Fulda.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> He gave Sturm two travelling companions, and when he had prayed for them and given<br> them his blessing, he said: &quot;Go into the beech <b>forest</b> (Buchoma, the <b>forest</b> <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../neander/light in the dark places/abbot sturm of fulda.htm</font><p><a href="/library/ugolino/the_little_flowers_of_st_francis_of_assisi/chapter_iv_how_the_angel.htm"><span class="l">How the Angel of God Put a Question to Brother Elias, Guardian of <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> Now it chanced one day, as St Francis was praying in the <b>forest</b>, that a handsome<br> young man, dressed for traveling, presented himself at the convent-gate <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../ugolino/the little flowers of st francis of assisi/chapter iv how the angel.htm</font><p><a href="/library/ugolino/the_little_flowers_of_st_francis_of_assisi/chapter_xlix_how_christ_appeared.htm"><span class="l">How Christ Appeared to Brother John of Alvernia</span></a> <br><b>...</b> to burn within him, as if it had been on fire, so that it was impossible for him<br> to remain quiet, and he ran to and fro in the garden, in the <b>forest</b>, and even <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../the little flowers of st francis of assisi/chapter xlix how christ appeared.htm</font><p><a href="/library/thaumaturgus/the_oration_and_panegyric_addressed_to_origen/argument_xiv_whence_the_contentions_of.htm"><span class="l">Whence the Contentions of Philosophers have Sprung. Against those <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> their safety, but keeps them down in its soil until they meet their end; or they<br> may be compared to men in a deep, dense, and majestic <b>forest</b>, into which the <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../argument xiv whence the contentions of.htm</font><p><a href="/library/neander/light_in_the_dark_places/the_abbots_euroul_and_loumon.htm"><span class="l">The Abbots Euroul and Loumon.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> the following. The abbot Ebrolf (Euroul) had settled with his monks in<br> a thick <b>forest</b>, infested by wild beasts and robbers. One <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../neander/light in the dark places/the abbots euroul and loumon.htm</font><p><a href="/library/byrum/the_value_of_a_praying_mother/chapter_xviii_answers_to_prayer.htm"><span class="l">Answers to Prayer.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> On account of the dense <b>forest</b>, the place appeared very dismal. <b>...</b> The next summer Bessie<br> learned how dangerous an enemy a large <b>forest</b> could become. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../byrum/the value of a praying mother/chapter xviii answers to prayer.htm</font><p><a href="/library/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_3_1857/the_fruitless_vine.htm"><span class="l">The Fruitless vine</span></a> <br><b>...</b> of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, What is the vine-tree more than any<br> tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the <b>forest</b>?&quot;"Ezekiel 15:1 <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/the fruitless vine.htm</font><p><a href="/library/winkworth/christian_singers_of_germany/the_minne-songs.htm"><span class="l">The Minne-Songs</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Fearing, however, lest he should inherit his father&#39;s spirit and meet with his father&#39;s<br> fate, she retires with him into a deep <b>forest</b>, where she brings him up <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../winkworth/christian singers of germany/the minne-songs.htm</font><p><a href="/library/kingston/the_seven_champions_of_christendom/chapter_one_the_birth_of.htm"><span class="l">The Birth of Saint George.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> He had heard that in the Black <b>Forest</b> in Germany there lived a powerful enchantress,<br> Kalyb by name, who would, without doubt, be able at once to give him all <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../kingston/the seven champions of christendom/chapter one the birth of.htm</font><a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/f/forest.htm"><span class="l"><b>Forest</b> (67 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> all the great primeval forests of Syria (Ecclesiastes 2:6; Isaiah 44:14; Jeremiah<br> 5:6; Micah 5:8). The most extensive was the trans-Jordanic <b>forest</b> of Ephraim <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/f/forest.htm - 37k</font><p><a href="/topical/f/forest-like.htm"><span class="l"><b>Forest</b>-like (1 Occurrence)</span></a><br><b>Forest</b>-like. Forestalling, <b>Forest</b>-like. Forests . Multi-Version<br> Concordance <b>Forest</b>-like (1 Occurrence). Ezekiel 31:3 <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/f/forest-like.htm - 6k</font><p><a href="/topical/f/forests.htm"><span class="l">Forests (12 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> parts of Lebanon; and I have cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice cypresses<br> thereof; and I have entered into his farthest lodge, the <b>forest</b> of his <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/f/forests.htm - 10k</font><p><a href="/topical/t/thickets.htm"><span class="l">Thickets (14 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets<br> of the <b>forest</b>, and they roll upward in a column of smoke. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/t/thickets.htm - 11k</font><p><a href="/topical/h/hereth.htm"><span class="l">Hereth (1 Occurrence)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia HERETH, THE <b>FOREST</b> OF. <b>...</b> Depart, and go into the land<br> of Judah.&quot; Then David departed, and came into the <b>forest</b> of Hereth. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/h/hereth.htm - 7k</font><p><a href="/topical/d/dense.htm"><span class="l">Dense (11 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter<br> in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense <b>forest</b>; a dense fog <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/d/dense.htm - 9k</font><p><a href="/topical/f/fruitful.htm"><span class="l">Fruitful (57 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars, and its choice<br> fir trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the <b>forest</b> of his <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/f/fruitful.htm - 24k</font><p><a href="/topical/k/kindle.htm"><span class="l">Kindle (25 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets<br> of the <b>forest</b>, and they roll upward in a column of smoke. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/k/kindle.htm - 15k</font><p><a href="/topical/b/botany.htm"><span class="l">Botany</span></a><br><b>...</b> (2) It is undeniable that the destruction of <b>forest</b> and thicket all over<br> the land has been immense during the past fifty years. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/b/botany.htm - 38k</font><p><a href="/topical/f/farthest.htm"><span class="l">Farthest (33 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Although it is a <b>forest</b>, you shall cut it down, and it's farthest extent shall be<br> yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/f/farthest.htm - 17k</font><p><a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/lily-of-the-valley.html">What is the lily of the valley (Song of Solomon 2:1)? &#124; GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/cattle-on-a-thousand-hills.html">What does it mean that God owns the cattle on a thousand hills? &#124; GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/cedars-of-Lebanon.html">What are the cedars of Lebanon the Bible mentions? &#124; GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://clyx.com/term/forest.htm">Forest: Dictionary and Thesaurus &#124; Clyx.com</a><br /><br /><a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> &#8226; <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> &#8226; <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> &#8226; <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> &#8226; <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div><span class="encheading">Forest (67 Occurrences)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/james/3-5.htm">James 3:5</a></span><br />So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large <span class="boldtext">forest</span>!<br /><span class="source">(WEB WEY NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/19-5.htm">Deuteronomy 19:5</a></span><br />as when a man goes into the <span class="boldtext">forest</span> with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/joshua/17-15.htm">Joshua 17:15</a></span><br />Joshua said to them, "If you are a great people, go up to the <span class="boldtext">forest</span>, and clear land for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you."<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/joshua/17-18.htm">Joshua 17:18</a></span><br />but the hill country shall be yours. Although it is a <span class="boldtext">forest</span>, you shall cut it down, and it's farthest extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong."<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_samuel/14-25.htm">1 Samuel 14:25</a></span><br />All the people came into the <span class="boldtext">forest</span>; and there was honey on the ground. <br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_samuel/14-26.htm">1 Samuel 14:26</a></span><br />When the people were come to the <span class="boldtext">forest</span>, behold, the honey dropped: but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_samuel/22-5.htm">1 Samuel 22:5</a></span><br />The prophet Gad said to David, "Don't stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah." Then David departed, and came into the <span class="boldtext">forest</span> of Hereth.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-15.htm">1 Samuel 23:15</a></span><br />And David seeth that Saul hath come out to seek his life, and David 'is' in the wilderness of Ziph, in a <span class="boldtext">forest</span>.<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-16.htm">1 Samuel 23:16</a></span><br />And Jonathan son of Saul riseth, and goeth unto David to the <span class="boldtext">forest</span>, and strengtheneth his hand in God,<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-18.htm">1 Samuel 23:18</a></span><br />And they make a covenant both of them before Jehovah; and David abideth in the <span class="boldtext">forest</span>, and Jonathan hath gone to his house.<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_samuel/23-19.htm">1 Samuel 23:19</a></span><br />And the Ziphites go up unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, 'Is not David hiding himself with us in fortresses, in the <span class="boldtext">forest</span>, in the height of Hachilah, which 'is' on the south of the desolate place?<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_samuel/18-6.htm">2 Samuel 18:6</a></span><br />So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the <span class="boldtext">forest</span> of Ephraim. <br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_samuel/18-8.htm">2 Samuel 18:8</a></span><br />For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country; and the <span class="boldtext">forest</span> devoured more people that day than the sword devoured. <br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_samuel/18-17.htm">2 Samuel 18:17</a></span><br />They took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the <span class="boldtext">forest</span>, and raised over him a very great heap of stones. Then all Israel fled everyone to his tent.<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_kings/7-2.htm">1 Kings 7:2</a></span><br />For he built the house of the <span class="boldtext">forest</span> of Lebanon; its length was one hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_kings/10-17.htm">1 Kings 10:17</a></span><br />he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the <span class="boldtext">forest</span> of Lebanon. <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_kings/10-21.htm">1 Kings 10:21</a></span><br />All king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the <span class="boldtext">forest</span> of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_kings/2-24.htm">2 Kings 2:24</a></span><br />And he looketh behind him, and seeth them, and declareth them vile in the name of Jehovah, and two bears come out of the <span class="boldtext">forest</span>, and rend of them forty and two lads.<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_kings/19-23.htm">2 Kings 19:23</a></span><br />By your messengers you have defied the Lord, and have said,'With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars, and its choice fir trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the <span class="boldtext">forest</span> of his fruitful field.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_chronicles/16-33.htm">1 Chronicles 16:33</a></span><br />Then the trees of the <span class="boldtext">forest</span> will sing for joy before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth.<br /><span class="source">(WEB DBY YLT NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_chronicles/9-16.htm">2 Chronicles 9:16</a></span><br />he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the <span class="boldtext">forest</span> of Lebanon. <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_chronicles/9-20.htm">2 Chronicles 9:20</a></span><br />All king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the <span class="boldtext">forest</span> of Lebanon were of pure gold: silver was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_chronicles/27-4.htm">2 Chronicles 27:4</a></span><br />Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.<br /><span class="source">(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/nehemiah/2-8.htm">Nehemiah 2:8</a></span><br />and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's <span class="boldtext">forest</span>, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle which appertains to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. The king granted me, according to the good hand of my God on me.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/50-10.htm">Psalms 50:10</a></span><br />For every animal of the <span class="boldtext">forest</span> is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/74-5.htm">Psalms 74:5</a></span><br />They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/80-13.htm">Psalms 80:13</a></span><br />The boar out of the <span class="boldtext">forest</span> doth waste it, and the beast of the field doth feed off it.<br /><span class="source">(DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/83-14.htm">Psalms 83:14</a></span><br />As the fire that burns the <span class="boldtext">forest</span>, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/96-12.htm">Psalms 96:12</a></span><br />Let the field exult and all that is therein. Then shall all the trees of the <span class="boldtext">forest</span> sing for joy,<br /><span class="source">(DBY YLT NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/104-20.htm">Psalms 104:20</a></span><br />You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the <span class="boldtext">forest</span> prowl.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/132-6.htm">Psalms 132:6</a></span><br />Lo, we have heard it in Ephratah, We have found it in the fields of the <span class="boldtext">forest</span>.<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-6.htm">Ecclesiastes 2:6</a></span><br />I made myself pools of water, to water from it the <span class="boldtext">forest</span> where trees were reared.<br /><span class="source">(WEB ASV YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/songs/2-3.htm">Song of Songs 2:3</a></span><br />As a citron among trees of the <span class="boldtext">forest</span>, So 'is' my beloved among the sons, In his shade I delighted, and sat down, And his fruit 'is' sweet to my palate.<br /><span class="source">(YLT NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/7-2.htm">Isaiah 7:2</a></span><br />It was told the house of David, saying, "Syria is allied with Ephraim." His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the <span class="boldtext">forest</span> tremble with the wind.<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/9-18.htm">Isaiah 9:18</a></span><br />For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the <span class="boldtext">forest</span>, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/10-18.htm">Isaiah 10:18</a></span><br />He will consume the glory of his <span class="boldtext">forest</span>, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/10-19.htm">Isaiah 10:19</a></span><br />The remnant of the trees of his <span class="boldtext">forest</span> shall be few, so that a child could write their number.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/10-34.htm">Isaiah 10:34</a></span><br />He will cut down the thickets of the <span class="boldtext">forest</span> with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/17-9.htm">Isaiah 17:9</a></span><br />In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken places, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel, after the manner of woods and lofty forests; and it shall be a desolation.<br /><span class="source">(Root in JPS YLT NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/21-13.htm">Isaiah 21:13</a></span><br />The burden on Arabia. In the <span class="boldtext">forest</span> in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/22-8.htm">Isaiah 22:8</a></span><br />He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the <span class="boldtext">forest</span>. <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/29-17.htm">Isaiah 29:17</a></span><br />Isn't it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a <span class="boldtext">forest</span>?<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/32-15.htm">Isaiah 32:15</a></span><br />Until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a <span class="boldtext">forest</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/32-19.htm">Isaiah 32:19</a></span><br />Though hail flattens the <span class="boldtext">forest</span>, and the city is leveled completely.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/37-24.htm">Isaiah 37:24</a></span><br />By your servants, have you defied the Lord, and have said, "With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the <span class="boldtext">forest</span> of its fruitful field.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/44-14.htm">Isaiah 44:14</a></span><br />He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the <span class="boldtext">forest</span>. He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/44-23.htm">Isaiah 44:23</a></span><br />Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O <span class="boldtext">forest</span>, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/56-9.htm">Isaiah 56:9</a></span><br />All you animals of the field, come to devour, yes, all you animals in the <span class="boldtext">forest</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-6.htm">Jeremiah 5:6</a></span><br />Therefore a lion out of the <span class="boldtext">forest</span> shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, and their backsliding is increased.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/10-3.htm">Jeremiah 10:3</a></span><br />For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the <span class="boldtext">forest</span>, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/12-8.htm">Jeremiah 12:8</a></span><br />My heritage is become to me as a lion in the <span class="boldtext">forest</span>: she has uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her. <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/21-14.htm">Jeremiah 21:14</a></span><br />I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her <span class="boldtext">forest</span>, and it shall devour all that is around her.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/26-18.htm">Jeremiah 26:18</a></span><br />Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a <span class="boldtext">forest</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-23.htm">Jeremiah 46:23</a></span><br />They shall cut down her <span class="boldtext">forest</span>, says Yahweh, though it can't be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/15-2.htm">Ezekiel 15:2</a></span><br />Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is among the trees of the <span class="boldtext">forest</span>?<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/15-6.htm">Ezekiel 15:6</a></span><br />Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As the vine tree among the trees of the <span class="boldtext">forest</span>, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/20-46.htm">Ezekiel 20:46</a></span><br />Son of man, set your face toward the south, and drop your word toward the south, and prophesy against the <span class="boldtext">forest</span> of the field in the South;<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/20-47.htm">Ezekiel 20:47</a></span><br />and tell the <span class="boldtext">forest</span> of the South, Hear the word of Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burnt thereby.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/31-3.htm">Ezekiel 31:3</a></span><br />Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a <span class="boldtext">forest</span>-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.<br /><span class="source">(WEB ASV NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/31-4.htm">Ezekiel 31:4</a></span><br />Waters have made it great, The deep hath exalted him with its flowings, Going round about its planting, And its conduits it hath sent forth unto all trees of the field.<br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/31-5.htm">Ezekiel 31:5</a></span><br />Therefore higher hath been his stature than all trees of the field, And multiplied are his boughs, and long are his branches, Because of many waters in his shooting forth,<br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/hosea/2-12.htm">Hosea 2:12</a></span><br />I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said,'These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a <span class="boldtext">forest</span>,' and the animals of the field shall eat them.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/amos/3-4.htm">Amos 3:4</a></span><br />Will a lion roar in the <span class="boldtext">forest</span>, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?<br /><span class="source">(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/micah/3-12.htm">Micah 3:12</a></span><br />Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a <span class="boldtext">forest</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/micah/5-8.htm">Micah 5:8</a></span><br />The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the <span class="boldtext">forest</span>, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/micah/7-14.htm">Micah 7:14</a></span><br />Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a <span class="boldtext">forest</span>, in the midst of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/zechariah/11-2.htm">Zechariah 11:2</a></span><br />Wail, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately ones are destroyed. 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