Bible Verses About Parables

And when the King came by, he cried vnto the King, and said, Thy seruant went into the middes of the battel: and beholde, there went away a man, whom another man brought vnto me, and sayd, Keepe this man: if he be lost, and want, thy life shall go for his life, or els thou shalt pay a talent of siluer.

And as thy seruant had here and there to do, he was gone: And the King of Israel said vnto him, So shall thy iudgement be: thou hast giuen sentence.

And hee hasted, and tooke the ashes away from his face: and the King of Israel knewe him that he was of the Prophets:

And he said vnto him, Thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast let goe out of thine handes a man whom I appoynted to dye, thy life shall goe for his life, and thy people for his people.

Then Iehoash the King of Israel sent to Amaziah King of Iudah, saying, The thistle that is in Lebanon, sent to the cedar that is in Lebanon, saying, Giue thy daughter to my sonne to wife: and the wilde beast that was in Lebanon, went and trode downe the thistle.

Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

Thou madest roume for it, and didest cause it to take roote, and it filled the land.

The mountaines were couered with the shadowe of it, and the boughes thereof were like the goodly cedars.

Shee stretched out her branches vnto the Sea, and her boughes vnto the Riuer.

Why hast thou then broken downe her hedges, so that all they, which passe by the way, haue plucked her?

The wilde bore out of the wood hath destroyed it, and the wilde beastes of the fielde haue eaten it vp.

Returne we beseech thee, O God of hostes: looke downe from heauen and beholde and visite this vine,

And the vineyard, that thy right hand hath planted, and the young vine, which thou madest strong for thy selfe.

It is burnt with fire and cut downe: and they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

Now will I sing to my beloued a song of my beloued to his vineyarde, My beloued had a vineyarde in a very fruitefull hill,

And hee hedged it, and gathered out the stones of it, and he planted it with the best plants, and hee builte a towre in the middes thereof, and made a wine presse therein: then hee looked that it should bring foorth grapes: but it brought foorth wilde grapes.

Now therefore, O inhabitants of Ierusalem and men of Iudah, iudge, I pray you, betweene me, and my vineyarde.

What coulde I haue done any more to my vineyard that I haue not done vnto it? why haue I looked that it should bring foorth grapes, and it bringeth foorth wilde grapes?

And nowe I will tell you what I will do to my vineyarde: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten vp: I will breake the wall thereof, and it shall be troden downe:

And I will laye it waste: it shall not be cut, nor digged, but briers, and thornes shall growe vp: I will also commande the cloudes that they raine no raine vpon it.

Surely the vineyard of the Lord of hostes is the house of Israel, and the men of Iudah are his pleasant plant, and hee looked for iudgement, but beholde oppression: for righteousnesse, but beholde a crying.

In that daye sing of the vineyarde of redde wine.

I the Lord doe keepe it: I will water it euery moment: least any assaile it, I will keepe it night and day.

Hearken ye, and heare my voyce: hearken ye, and heare my speach.

Doeth the plowe man plowe all the day, to sowe? doeth he open, and breake the clots of his ground?