Julia Prins Vanderveen

Job 14:1-12; 19:25-27
“At least there is hope for a tree: if it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.”

Judges 6:11-24
The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak . . . where . . . Gideon was threshing wheat. . . .

Deuteronomy 20
Do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit.

Exodus 37:1-2, 10-11, 17-28
On the lampstand were four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms. . . .

Exodus 15:22-27
They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and ­seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the water.

Exodus 3:1-12
Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”

Genesis 21:22-34
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.

Genesis 13
So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron. . . . There he built an altar to the Lord.

Genesis 3:1-20
“But God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. . . .’”

Genesis 2:8-9
In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 1:9-13, 27-31; 2:8-9
God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food.

John 20:1-18
Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him. . . .”

Acts 5:29-39
“We must obey God rather than any human authority. The God of our ancestors raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree.”

Luke 23:26-49
“If people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

Matthew 26:36-46
Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”

Revelation 21:9-21
The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone.

Exodus 28:15-30; Mark 9:2-13
Put the Urim and the Thummim in the breastpiece. . . . Thus Aaron will always bear the means of making decisions . . . over his heart before the Lord.

Matthew 7:24-29
Everyone who . . . puts [these words] into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew. . . .

1 Peter 2:7-10
A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.” They stumble because they disobey. . . .

1 Peter 2:4-6
You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house.

Acts 7:51-60
While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

John 8:1-11
Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.

Matthew 28:1-10
There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it.

Matthew 27:45-55
The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open.