Judges 9:11

Bishops' Bible (1568)

The figge tree aunswered them: should I forsake my sweetnes, and my good fruite, and go to be promoted ouer the trees?

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  • Luke 13:6-7 : 6 He tolde also this similitude. A certaine man had a figge tree planted in his vineyarde, and he came, and sought fruite theron, and founde none. 7 Then sayde he to the dresser of his vineyarde: Beholde, this three yere I haue come & sought fruite in this figge tree, and finde none: cut it downe, why cumbreth it the grounde?

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  • Judg 9:8-10
    3 verses
    92%

    8The trees went foorth to annoynt a kyng ouer them, and sayde vnto the Olyue tree: Raigne thou ouer vs.

    9But the Olyue tree sayd vnto them: Should I leaue my fatnesse wherwith by me they honour God and man, & to be promoted ouer the trees?

    10And the trees sayd to the figge tree: Come thou, and be kyng ouer vs.

  • Judg 9:12-15
    4 verses
    88%

    12Then sayde the trees vnto the vine: Come thou and be kyng ouer vs.

    13The vine sayde vnto them: Should I leaue my wine wherby I cheare both God and man, and go to be promoted ouer the trees?

    14Then said all the trees vnto the bryer: Come thou and raigne ouer vs.

    15And the bryer sayde vnto the trees: If it be true that ye will annoynt me kyng ouer you, then come and put your trust vnder my shadow: If no, the fyre come out of the bryer, & waste the Cedar trees of Libanon.

  • Luke 21:29
    75%

    29And he shewed them a similitude: Behold the figge tree, & all the trees.

  • Matt 21:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19And when he sawe one fygge tree in the waye, he came to it, and founde nothyng theron but leaues only, & said vnto it: neuer fruite growe on thee henceforwarde. And anone the figge tree withered away.

    20And when his disciples sawe it, they marueyled, saying: Howe soone is the figge tree wythered away?

  • Luke 13:6-9
    4 verses
    75%

    6He tolde also this similitude. A certaine man had a figge tree planted in his vineyarde, and he came, and sought fruite theron, and founde none.

    7Then sayde he to the dresser of his vineyarde: Beholde, this three yere I haue come & sought fruite in this figge tree, and finde none: cut it downe, why cumbreth it the grounde?

    8And he aunswered, & sayde vnto him: Lorde, let it alone this yere also, tyll I dygge rounde about it, & dongue it.

    9And yf it beare fruite thou mayest let it alone: and yf it beare not then, after that shalt thou cut it downe.

  • Ezek 17:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8It was planted vpon a good soyle beside great waters, so that it should haue brought out braunches, & borne fruite, and haue ben a goodly vine.

    9Speake thou therfore, thus saith the Lorde God: Shall this vine prosper? shall he not pull vp the rootes therof, and destroy the fruite thereof, and cause them to dry? all the leaues of her bud shall wither without great power, or many people, to plucke it vp by the rootes thereof.

  • Mark 11:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13And when he had spyed a fygge tree a farre of, hauyng leaues, he came to see if he myght fynde any thyng theron: And when he came to it, he founde nothyng but leaues: for the tyme of figges was not yet.

    14And Iesus aunswered, and sayde vnto the fygge tree: neuer man eate fruite of thee hereafter, whyle the worlde standeth. And his disciples hearde it.

  • Ezek 19:11
    73%

    11And she had strong roddes for the scepters of them that beare rule, and her stature was exalted on hye among the braunches, & she appeared in her height with the multitude of her braunches.

  • Ezek 31:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8No Cedar tree might hyde hym in the garden of God, there was no fyrre trees like his braunches, the chestnut trees were not like the bowes of him: all the trees in the garden of God, might not be compared vnto him in his beautie.

    9I made him faire with the multitude of his braunches: insomuch that all the trees in the pleasaunt garden of God had enuie at hym.

  • Ps 80:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10The hilles were couered with her shadowe: and goodly high Cedar trees with her bowes.

    11She stretched out her braunches vnto the sea: and her bowes vnto the riuer.

  • Mark 11:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20And in the mornyng, as they passed by, they sawe the fygge tree dryed vp by the rootes.

    21And Peter remembred, and sayde vnto hym: Maister, beholde, the fygge tree which thou cursedst, is withered away.

  • Song 2:13
    72%

    13The figge tree bryngeth foorth her figges, and the vines beare blossomes and haue a good smell.

  • Ezek 15:2
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    2Thou sonne of man, what commeth of the vine tree, more then of euery other tree, & of the wylde vine stocke among other trees of the forest?

  • Jas 3:12
    72%

    12Can the fygge tree, my brethren, beare oliue beries? either a vine beare figges? So can no fountayne geue both salt water and freshe also.

  • Ezek 17:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5He toke also of the seede of the land, and planted it in a fruiteful grounde, he brought it vnto great waters, and set it in an open trenche.

    6Then did it grow, and was a spreading vine, but lowe of stature, whose braunches turned towarde it, and the rootes of it were vnder it: thus there came of it a vine, and it brought foorth braunches, and shot foorth buddes.

  • Dan 4:14
    72%

    14And cryed mightily, saying thus: Hew downe the tree, breake of his braunches, shake of his leaues, & scatter his fruite abroade: that the beastes may get them away from vnder hym, and the foules from his braunches.

  • Ezek 31:14
    72%

    14So that none of all the trees by the waters shalbe exalted in their heyght, nor shoot vp their toppes among the thycke bowes, neither shall their trees stande in their heyght, as many of them as drinke water: for they are all deliuered vnto death in the neather partes of the earth, in the mids of the children of men among them that go downe to the pit.

  • Joel 1:12
    72%

    12The wine is dryed vp, and the figge tree is decayed, the pomgranate tree, and the paulme, & the apple tree, euen all the trees of the fielde are withered vp: for ioy is withered away from the sonnes of men.

  • Job 14:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8Though the roote of it be waxen olde, and the stocke thereof be dead in the grounde:

    9Yet when it getteth the sent of water, it wyll budde and bring foorth bowes, lyke as a tree that is planted.

  • Dan 4:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11A great tree and strong, and the heyght therof reached vnto the heauen, and the sight thereof to the endes of all the earth.

    12The leaues therof were fayre, and the fruite therof much, and in it was meate for all: the beastes of the fielde had shadowes vnder it, and the foules of the aire dwelt in the bowes therof: al fleshe fed of it.

  • Ezek 31:5
    71%

    5Therefore was he higher then all the trees of the fielde, and his bowes were multiplied, & his braunches were long, because of the multitude of the waters, which the deepe sent out.

  • Dan 4:21
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    21Whose leaues were fayre, and the fruite therof much, and in it was meate for all: vnder the which the beastes of the fielde had their habitation, and vpon whose braunches the foules of the aire did sit:

  • Rom 11:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18Boast not thy selfe agaynst the braunches. For yf thou boast thy selfe, thou bearest not the roote, but the roote thee.

    19Thou wylt say then, the braunches are broken of, that I might be graft in.

  • Joel 1:7
    71%

    7He hath destroyed my vine, & barked my figge tree, he hath pilled it and cast it from him, and hath left bowes therof whyte.

  • Luke 3:9
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    9Nowe also is the axe layed vnto the roote of the trees: Euery tree therfore which bryngeth not foorth good fruite, is hewen downe, and cast into the fire.

  • Prov 27:18
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    18Whoso kepeth his figge tree, shall eate the fruites thereof: so he that wayteth vpon his maister, shall come to honour.

  • Hab 3:17
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    17For the figgetree shall not floorish, neither shall fruite be in the vines: the labour of the oliue shall fayle, & the fieldes shall yelde no meate: the sheepe shalbe cut of from the folde, and there shalbe no bullocke in the stalles.

  • Jer 8:13
    70%

    13Moreouer, I wyll consume them in deede (saith the Lorde) so that there shall not be one grape vpon the vine, neither one figge vpon the figge tree, and the leaues shalbe pluckt of: and the thing that I haue geuen them, shalbe taken from them.

  • Song 7:8
    70%

    8I sayde, I wyll climbe vp into the paulme tree, and take holde of his hye braunches. Thy breastes also shalbe as the wine clusters, the smell of thy nosethrilles like as the smell of apples.

  • Isa 14:8
    70%

    8Yea euen the Firre trees and Cedars of Libanus reioyce at thy fall, saying: Nowe that thou art layde downe, there come no mo vp to hewe downe vs.

  • Ezek 17:24
    70%

    24And all the trees of the fielde shall knowe that I the Lorde haue brought downe the hye tree, and exalted the lowe tree, that I haue dryed vp the greene tree, and made the drye tree to florishe, euen I the Lorde that spake it, haue also brought it to passe.

  • Job 15:33
    70%

    33He shalbe plucked of as an vntimely grape from the vine, and shall let his floure fall as the oliue doth.