Isaiah 5:2 (KJV)

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And 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

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fenced it. or, made a wall about it. Ex 33:16 Nu 23:9 De 32:8 De 32:9 Ps 44:1-3 Ro 9:4

planted. Jer 2:21

the choicest vine.{Sorek,} in Arabic, {sharik,} certainly denotes an excellent vine; but some with Bp. Lowth, retain it as a proper name. Sorek was a valley lying between Askelon and Gaza, so called from the excellence of its vines. Re 15:4

and built. Isa 1:8 Mic 4:8

made. Heb. hewed. a winepress. Isa 63:2 Isa 63:3 Ne 13:15 Re 14:18-20

he looked. Isa 5:7 Isa 1:2-4 Isa 1:21-23 De 32:6 Mt 21:34 Mr 11:13 Mr 12:2 Lu 13:7 Lu 20:10-18 1Co 9:7

wild grapes. De 32:32 De 32:33 Ho 10:1

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