From Nave’s Topical Bible
Olive
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 20Passages listed
- 13Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- (A fruit tree)
- Branch of, brought by the dove to Noah's arkGenesis 8:11
- Common to the land of CanaanExodus 23:11Deuteronomy 6:11Deuteronomy 8:8
- Israelites commanded to cultivate in the land of promiseDeuteronomy 28:40
- Branches of, used for booths (huts)Nehemiah 8:15
- Bears flowersJob 15:33
- Precepts concerning gleaning the fruit ofDeuteronomy 24:20Isaiah 17:6
- The cherubs made of the wood of1 Kings 6:231 Kings 6:31–33
- Fable ofJudges 9:8
- FIGURATIVE
- Of prosperityPsalms 128:3
- The wild, a figure of the Gentiles; the cultivated, of the JewsRomans 11:17–21Romans 11:24
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- SYMBOLICALZechariah 4:2–12Revelation 11:4
- FRUIT OF
- Oil extracted from, used as illuminating oil in the tabernacleExodus 39:37Leviticus 24:2Zechariah 4:12
- See Oil
The passages, in Bible order (20)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 8:11
And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
Commentary on Genesis 8:112 voices
The Synagogue has not this oil, inasmuch as she has not the olive, and understood not that dove which brought back the olive branch after the deluge. For that Dove descended afterwards when Christ was baptized, and abode upon Him, as John testified in the Gospel, saying: "I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and He abode upon Him." But how could he see the Dove, who saw not Him, upon Whom the Spirit descended like a dove?
Ambrose of Milan· Letter 41.21, 397Patristic
For as Noah's ark preserved alive everyone whom it had taken in when the world was going under, so also Peter's church will bring back unhurt everyone whom it embraces when the world goes up in flames. And as a dove brought the sign of …
Maximus of Turin· SERMONS 49.3, 465Patristic
- Exodus 23:11
but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.
Commentary on Exodus 23:111 voice
But the seventh year thou shall let it rest, and lie still,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Exodus 39:37
the pure gold lampstand with its row of lamps and all its utensils, as well as the oil for the light;
Commentary on Exodus 39:371 voice
The pure candlestick - See Clarkes note on Exo 25:31. The lamps to be set in order - To be trimmed and fresh oiled every day, for the purpose of being lighted in the evening. See Clarkes note on Exo 27:21.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
- Leviticus 24:2
“Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
Commentary on Leviticus 24:21 voice
Command the children of Israel,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 6:11
with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied,
Commentary on Deuteronomy 6:111 voice
And houses full of all good things which thou filledst not,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 8:8
a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;
Commentary on Deuteronomy 8:81 voice
A land of wheat and barley,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 24:20
When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 24:201 voice
When thou beatest thine olive tree,.... With sticks and staves, to get off the olives when ripe: thou shall not go over the boughs again; to beat off some few that may remain; they were not nicely to examine the boughs over again, whether there were any left or not: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow; who might come into their oliveyards after the trees had been beaten, and gather what were left.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 28:40
You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:401 voice
Thou shalt have olive trees throughout thy coasts,.... In the several parts of the land of Canaan, which is therefore called a land of olive oil, Deu 8:8, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; nor any other relations, friends, guests, as was usual at entertainments; see Psa 23:5; for the phrase "thyself" is not in the text.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Judges 9:8
One day the trees set out to anoint a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’
Commentary on Judges 9:81 voice
But lest I should appear to some to be sophistical, and to conjecture these things from mere probabilities, and to babble, I will bring forward to you, O virgins, from the Old Testament, written prophecy from the book of Judges, to show that I speak the truth, where the future reign of chastity was already clearly foretold.…Now it is clear that these things are not said of trees growing out of the earth. Inanimate trees cannot be assembled in council to choose a king since they are firmly fixed to the earth by deep roots.
Methodius of Olympus· BANQUET OF THE TEN VIRGINS 10.2, 311Patristic
- 1 Kings 6:23
In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim, each ten cubits high, out of olive wood.
Commentary on 1 Kings 6:231 voice
"Cherubim," as the prophet Ezekiel explicitly declares, is a title of dignity, and in the singular number the form cherub is used, but cherubim in the plural. Hence the figures of the cherubim that were made in the oracle can be appropriately taken to mean …
Bede· Of the Temple of Solomon 1.13.1, 735Patristic
- 1 Kings 6:31–33
For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, Solomon constructed doors of olive wood with five-sided doorposts.
Commentary on 1 Kings 6:31–331 voice
As regards the first part of his statement, namely, "he made little doors of olive wood," he seems to have wanted to explain this more clearly when he added "and two doors of olive wood." For there was one entrance to the oracle. But this …
Bede· Of the Temple of Solomon 1.15, 735Patristic
- Nehemiah 8:15
So they proclaimed this message and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”
Commentary on Nehemiah 8:151 voice
Go forth, he says, to the mountain, etc. And let us also go forth from a dwelling of general thoughts, to the height of the holy Scriptures to be frequently meditated upon; and let us bring from there, as if olive branches, the fruits of …
Bede· Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah, 735Patristic
- Job 15:33
He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
Commentary on Job 15:331 voice
Ver. 33, 34. His cluster shall be spoilt like a vine in the first flower, and like an olive casting its flower. For the congregation of the hypocrite shall be barren. It is to be observed that the Divine Word so speaks of this wicked man in general terms, that yet it comes down to his particular wickedness.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book XII, 604Patristic
- Psalms 128:3
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
Commentary on Psalms 128:31 voice
Your wife like a fruitful vine on the sides of your house. Solomon says that he wished to take wisdom as his bride. He says also in another place concerning wisdom: 'Love her, and she will embrace you: encompass her, and she will keep you.' Let us too, therefore, take this wife; let us hold her in our embraces, let us never let her go from our bosom, let her never flee from our hands. If this wife is always in our embrace, we will make from her sons: not daughters, but sons.
Jerome· Homily 42, on Psalm 127, 420Patristic
- Isaiah 17:6
Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten— two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.
Commentary on Isaiah 17:61 voice
(Verse 6) And he shall be left like a cluster of grapes, like the shaking of an olive tree, with two or three berries on the top of the branch, or four or five on its fruitful branches, says the Lord God of Israel. Those who are chosen because of their humility are like grain on the threshing floor and grapes in the vineyard, that are saved: and like the shaking of the olive tree, whether two, three, four or five olives.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
- Zechariah 4:2–12
“What do you see?” he asked. “I see a solid gold lampstand,” I replied, “with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it, with seven spouts to the lamps.
Commentary on Zechariah 4:2–121 voice
(V. 2 onwards.) And he said to me, 'What do you see?' And I said, 'I see, and behold, a golden lampstand, and its lamp on top of it, and seven lamps on it, with seven pipes to the lamps that are on top of it. And there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the lampstand and one on its left.' Then I answered and said to the angel who talked with me, 'What are these, my lord?'
Jerome· Commentary on Zechariah, 420Patristic