Bible Dictionary: Lebanon: Figurative

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Isaiah 29:17
Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
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Jeremiah 22:6
For thus said the LORD to the king's house of Judah; You are Gilead to me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make you a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.
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The Figurative Language of Scripture.
... to a word or sentence turned from its literal signification to a figurative sense. ...
The second is that of Jehoash: "The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxxv the figurative language.htm

In the Case of Figurative Signs, Again, if Ignorance of any of ...
... places, what Jerusalem signifies, or Sion, or Sinai, or Lebanon, or Jordan ... when these
names have been investigated and explained, many figurative expressions in ...
/.../augustine/on christian doctrine in four books/chapter 23 in the case.htm

The Knowledge Both of Language and Things is Helpful for the ...
... places, what Jerusalem signifies, or Sion, or Sinai, or Lebanon, or Jordan ... when these
names have been investigated and explained, many figurative expressions in ...
/.../on christian doctrine in four books /chapter 16 the knowledge both of.htm

Interpretation of Prophecy.
... monarch's progress through the land of Judea, ending with a figurative account of ...
shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxxviii interpretation of prophecy.htm

The Hebrew Sages and their Proverbs
... Poetical in structure, terse, often figurative or epigrammatic, the proverb was
well calculated ... varieties of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to ...
/.../the origin and permanent value of the old testament/x the hebrew sages and.htm

John the Baptist's Person and Preaching.
... Lebanon, who was put to death by Mark Antony, bc36, or sixty-odd years before this,
and another who was tetrarch of ... Isaiah's language is highly figurative. ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/xvii john the baptists person.htm

On the Baptism of Christ.
... him with the clean and fair apparel; teaching us by the figurative illustration
that ... And "the glory of Lebanon [2153] ," from the similitude of its lofty trees ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/on the baptism of christ.htm

The Transfiguration.
... as it does a great part of Syria from the sea to Damascus, from the Lebanon and
the ... It also occurs in a figurative sense in 2 Corinthians 1:8; v. 4; 1 Timothy 5 ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter i the transfiguration.htm

The Great Confession - the Great Commission - the Great ...
... snow-clad heads (the Hermons'), [3625] and, in the dim far background, majestic
Lebanon. ... leaven' in a literal, which He had meant in a figurative sense, that ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xxxvii the great confession.htm

Solomon's Temple Spiritualized
... 2:1). Also, she, his beloved, saith of him, 'His countenance is as Lebanon, excellent
as ... Indeed, the whole, in a manner, was a typical and a figurative thing. ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/solomons temple spiritualized.htm

Subtopics

Lebanon

Lebanon of Great and Powerful Monarchs

Lebanon of the Gentile World

Lebanon of the Jewish Nation

Lebanon of the Temple

Lebanon: (Fragrance of) of the Graces of the Church

Lebanon: (Glory of) of the Glory of the Church

Lebanon: (Mourning of) of Deep Affliction

Lebanon: (Shaking of Its Forests) Prodigious Growth of The

Lebanon: "House of the Forest of"

Lebanon: Beasts of