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Mount of Olives in the Bible

The ridge across the Kidron from the temple is where David flees weeping from Absalom, where Jesus teaches about the end, prays in Gethsemane, and from where Acts places the ascension.

Read the first mention — Genesis 8:11Search every form of “Olives

Verses mentioning Mount of Olives

57 occurrences across 50 verses in the King James Version.

  1. Genesis 8:11

    And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

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  2. Exodus 23:11

    But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard. oliveyard: or, olive trees

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  3. Exodus 27:20

    And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always. to burn: Heb. to ascend up

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  4. Exodus 30:24

    And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:

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  5. Leviticus 24:2

    Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually. to cause: Heb. to cause to ascend

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  6. Deuteronomy 6:11

    And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;

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  7. Deuteronomy 8:8

    A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; of oil: Heb. of olive tree of oil

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  8. Deuteronomy 24:20

    When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. go: Heb. bough it after thee

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  9. Deuteronomy 28:40

    Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.

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  10. Judges 9:8

    The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.

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  11. Judges 9:9

    But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? go: or, go up and down for other trees

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  12. Judges 15:5

    And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.

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  13. 1 Kings 6:23

    And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high. olive: or, oily: Heb. trees of oil

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  14. 1 Kings 6:31

    And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall. a fifth: or, fivesquare

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  15. 1 Kings 6:32

    The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees. two: or, leaves of the doors open flowers: Heb. openings of flowers

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  16. 1 Kings 6:33

    So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall. a fourth: or, foursquare

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  17. 2 Kings 18:32

    Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. persuadeth: or, deceiveth

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  18. 2 Kings 23:13

    And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile. the mount: that is, the mount of Olives

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  19. 1 Chronicles 27:28

    And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in the low plains was Baalhanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash:

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  20. Nehemiah 8:15

    And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.

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  21. Job 15:33

    He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

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  22. Psalms 52:8

    But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

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  23. Psalms 128:3

    Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

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  24. Isaiah 17:6

    Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.

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  25. Isaiah 24:13

    When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

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