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Grass

 

Grass

A green herb - Mr 6:39

CALLED

• Grass of the earth
- Re 9:4
• Grass of the field
- Nu 22:4

Springs out of the earth - 2Sa 23:4

GOD

• Originally created
- Ge 1:11,12
• The giver of
- De 11:15
• Causes to grow
- Ps 104:14; 147:8
• Adorns and clothes
- Mt 6:30

Often grew on the tops of houses - Ps 129:6

When young, soft and tender - Pr 27:25

Refreshed by rain and dew - De 32:2; Pr 19:12

Cattle fed upon - Job 6:5; Jer 50:11

Ovens often heated with - Mt 6:30

DESTROYED BY

• Locusts
- Re 9:4
• Hail and lightning
- Re 8:7
• Drought
- 1Ki 17:1; 18:5

Failure of, a great calamity - Isa 15:5,6

Sufferings of cattle from failure of, described - Jer 14:5,6

ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of shortness and uncertainty of life
- Ps 90:5,6; 103:15; Isa 40:6,7; 1Pe 1:24
• Of prosperity of the wicked
- Ps 92:7
• (Refreshed by dew and showers,) of the saints refreshed by
grace - Ps 72:6; Mic 5:7
• (On tops of houses,) of the wicked
- 2Ki 19:26; Isa 37:27
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