Ulangan 8:8

8:8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees and honey,

Ulangan 8:2

8:2 Remember the whole way by which he ¹  has brought you these forty years through the desert ²  so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

1 Raja-raja 18:31

18:31 Then Elijah took twelve stones, corresponding to the number of tribes that descended from Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, “Israel will be your new ³  name.” ⁴ 

Mazmur 105:33

105:33 He destroyed their vines and fig trees,

and broke the trees throughout their territory.

Yesaya 36:16

36:16 Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says, ‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. ⁵  Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,

Yeremia 5:17

5:17 They will eat up your crops and your food.

They will kill off ⁶  your sons and your daughters.

They will eat up your sheep and your cattle.

They will destroy your vines and your fig trees. ⁷ 

Their weapons will batter down ⁸ 

the fortified cities you trust in.

Yoel 2:22

2:22 Do not fear, wild animals! ⁹ 

For the pastures of the wilderness are again green with grass.

Indeed, the trees bear their fruit;

the fig tree and the vine yield to their fullest. ¹⁰ 

Mikha 4:4

4:4 Each will sit under his own grapevine

or under his own fig tree without any fear. ¹¹ 

The Lord who commands armies has decreed it. ¹² 

Zakharia 3:10

3:10 In that day,’ says the Lord who rules over all, ‘everyone will invite his friend to fellowship under his vine and under his fig tree.’” ¹³ 

[8:2]  ¹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[8:2]  ² tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NRSV, NLT); likewise in v. 15.

[18:31]  ³ tn The word “new” is implied but not actually present in the Hebrew text.

[18:31]  ⁴ sn Israel will be your new name. See Gen 32:28; 35:10.

[36:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “make with me a blessing and come out to me.”

[5:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “eat up.”

[5:17]  ⁷ tn Or “eat up your grapes and figs”; Heb “eat up your vines and your fig trees.”

[5:17]  sn It was typical for an army in time of war in the ancient Near East not only to eat up the crops but to destroy the means of further production.

[5:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “They will beat down with the sword.” The term “sword” is a figure of speech (synecdoche) for military weapons in general. Siege ramps, not swords, beat down city walls; swords kill people, not city walls.

[2:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “beasts of the field.”

[2:22]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “their strength.” The trees and vines will produce a maximum harvest, in contrast to the failed agricultural conditions previously described.

[4:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and there will be no one making [him] afraid.”

[4:4]  ¹² tn Heb “for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts has spoken.”

[3:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “under the vine and under the fig tree,” with the Hebrew article used twice as a possessive pronoun (cf. NASB “his”). Some English translations render this as second person rather than third (NRSV “your vine”; cf. also NAB, NCV, TEV).

[3:10]  sn The imagery of fellowship under his vine and under his fig tree describes the peaceful dominion of the Lord in the coming messianic age (Mic 4:4; cf. 1 Kgs 4:25).