Vineyard

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Vineyards were generally on hills
(Isa. 5:11Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: (Isaiah 5:1); Jer. 31:55Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things. (Jeremiah 31:5); Amos 9:1313Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. (Amos 9:13)); surrounded by walls or hedges to keep out boars (Psa. 80:1313The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. (Psalm 80:13)); jackals and foxes (Num. 22:2424But the angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side. (Numbers 22:24); Neh. 4:33Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall. (Nehemiah 4:3); Song of Sol. 2:1515Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes. (Song of Solomon 2:15); Ezek. 13:44O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. (Ezekiel 13:4); Matt. 21:3333Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: (Matthew 21:33)). Towers were erected within the vineyard for watch-houses and dwellings for the vine-keeper (Isa. 1:8; 5:28And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. (Isaiah 1:8)
2And 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. (Isaiah 5:2); Matt. 21:3333Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: (Matthew 21:33)).