Nave’s Topical Bible
Fence
13 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- General scriptures concerning
- Made of stone walls
Numbers 22:24; Psalms 62:3; Proverbs 24:30-31; Isaiah 5:2; Micah 7:11
- Hedge
Ecclesiastes 10:8; Isaiah 5:5; Nahum 3:17; Matthew 21:33; Proverbs 15:19; Hosea 2:6
- FIGURATIVE
Bible verses about “Fence”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Song of Songs 4:12A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
- Numbers 22:24But the angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
- Psalms 62:3How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
- Proverbs 24:30I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
- Proverbs 24:31And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
- Isaiah 5:2And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
- Micah 7:11In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.
- Ecclesiastes 10:8He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
- Isaiah 5:5And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
- Nahum 3:17Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
- Matthew 21:33Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
- Proverbs 15:19The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
- Hosea 2:6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
- Ezekiel 22:30And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.