Topical Bible Study

Vineyards

65 scripture references across 38 subtopics — Nave's Topical Bible

Overview

Vineyards held significant economic and spiritual importance in biblical culture. Scripture uses vineyards as symbols of God's people, blessings, and accountability. They required careful cultivation, protection, and investment—making them ideal illustrations of spiritual truths about growth, judgment, and restoration.

Key Scriptures

"He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes" (Isaiah 5:2, ESV). "I had a vineyard of my own; the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon, and two hundred are for those who keep its fruit" (Song of Solomon 8:11-12, ESV). "A certain landowner planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants" (Matthew 21:33, ESV).

Application

Just as vineyards require intentional cultivation and protection to bear fruit, believers must cultivate spiritual disciplines and guard against sin to grow in Christ-likeness and produce fruit pleasing to God.

Scripture References 65 total

(Cleaning grapes of,) of the elect

(Failure of,) of severe calamities

Compensation in kind to be made for injury done to

Cottages built in, for the keepers

Estimated profit arising from, to the cultivators

Failure in, occasioned great grief

Frequently let out to husbandmen

Frequently walled or fenced with hedges

In unfavourable seasons produced but little wine

Mode of hiring and paying labourers for working in

Not to be cultivated in the Sabbatical year

Not to be planted with different kinds of seed

Of red grapes particularly esteemed

Of the kings of Israel superintended by officers of the state

Of the slothful man neglected and laid waste

Origin and antiquity of

Planters of, not liable to military service till they had eaten of The fruit

Provided with the apparatus for making wine

Rent of, frequently paid by part of the fruit

Sometimes continued to the time of sowing seed

Strangers entering, allowed to eat fruit of, but not to take any away

The fruit of new, not to be eaten for three years

The fruit of new, to be eaten by the owners from the fifth year

The fruit of new, to be holy to the Lord in the fourth year

The gleaning of, to be left for the poor

The poor engaged in the culture of

The produce of, was frequently destroyed by enemies

The Rechabites forbidden to plant

The spontaneous fruit of, not to be gathered during the sabbatical year

The stones carefully gathered out of

The whole produce of, often destroyed by insects, &c

The wicked judicially deprived of the enjoyment of

Was a time of great rejoicing

Were often mortgaged