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Herbs, &c

 

Herbs, &c

Called the green herbs - 2Ki 19:26

GOD

• Created
- Ge 1:11,12; 2:5
• Causes to grow
- Job 38:27; Ps 104:14

Each kind of, contains its own seed - Ge 1:11,12

Given as food to man - Ge 1:28,29; 9:3

FOUND IN

• The fields
- Jer 12:4
• The mountains
- Pr 27:25
• The marshes
- Job 8:11
• The deserts
- Job 24:5; Jer 17:6

Cultivated in gardens - De 11:10; 1Ki 21:2

Cultivated for food - Pr 15:17; Heb 6:7

Require rain dew - De 32:2; Job 38:26,27

Mode of watering, alluded to - De 11:10

MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE

• Aloe
- So 4:14
• Anise
- Mt 23:23
• Barley
- Ex 9:31; 2Sa 14:30
• Beans
- 2Sa 17:28
• Bulrushes
- Ex 2:3; Isa 58:5
• Calamus
- So 4:14
• Cummin
- Isa 28:27; Mt 23:23
• Cucumber
- Nu 11:5; Isa 1:8
• Fitches
- Isa 28:25,27
• Flag
- Ex 2:3; Job 8:11
• Flax
- Ex 9:31
• Garlic
- Nu 11:5
• Gourds
- 2Ki 4:39
• Grass
- Nu 22:4
• Heath
- Jer 17:6; 48:6
• Hyssop
- Ex 12:22; 1Ki 4:33
• Leeks
- Nu 11:5
• Lentiles
- Ge 25:34
• Mandrakes
- Ge 30:14; So 7:13
• Mallows
- Job 30:4
• Millet
- Eze 4:9
• Melon
- Nu 11:5
• Mint
- Mt 23:23
• Myrrh
- So 4:14
• Onions
- Nu 11:5
• Reeds
- Job 40:21; Isa 19:6
• Rushes
- Job 8:11
• Rye
- Ex 9:32
• Saffron
- So 4:14
• Spikenard
- So 4:14
• Tares or Darnel
- Mt 13:30
• Wheat
- Ex 9:32; Jer 12:13

Bitter, used at passover - Ex 12:8; Nu 9:11

Poisonous, not fit for man's use - 2Ki 4:39,40

DESTROYED BY

• Hail and lightning
- Ex 9:22-25
• Locusts, &c
- Ex 10:12,15; Ps 105:34,35
• Drought
- Isa 42:15
• Tithable among the Jews
- Lu 11:42

Were sometimes used instead of animal food by weak saints - Ro 14:2

ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of the wicked
- 2Ki 19:26; Ps 37:2
• (Dew on,) of grace given to saints
- Isa 18:4
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