Daniel 4:14 References
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'He shouted out and spoke as follows: "aChop down the tree and cut off its branches, Strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit; Let the bbeasts flee from under it And the birds from its branches.
a Ezekiel 31:10-14, Daniel 4:23, Matthew 3:10, Matthew 7:19, Luke 13:7-9
Ezekiel 31
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'Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Because it is high in stature and has set its top among the clouds, and its aheart is haughty in its loftiness,
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therefore I will give it into the hand of a adespot of the nations; he will thoroughly deal with it. According to its wickedness I have bdriven it away.
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"aAlien btyrants of the nations have cut it down and left it; on the cmountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land. And all the peoples of the earth have dgone down from its shade and left it.
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"On its ruin all the abirds of the heavens will dwell, and all the beasts of the field will be on its fallen branches
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so that all the trees by the waters may not be exalted in their stature, nor set their top among the clouds, nor their well-watered mighty ones stand erect in their height. For they have all been given over to death, to the aearth beneath, among the sons of men, with those who go down to the pit."
Daniel 4
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'In that the king saw an angelic watcher, a holy one, descending from heaven and saying, "aChop down the tree and destroy it; yet leave the stump with its roots in the ground, but with a band of iron and bronze around it in the new grass of the field, and let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and let him share with the beasts of the field until bseven periods of time pass over him,"
Matthew 3
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"The aaxe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore bevery tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Matthew 7
Luke 13
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"And he said to the vineyard-keeper, 'Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree without finding any. aCut it down! Why does it even use up the ground?'
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"And he answered and said to him, 'Let it alone, sir, for this year too, until I dig around it and put in fertilizer;
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and if it bears fruit next year, fine; but if not, cut it down.'"