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Vintage

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: V

By: James P. Boyd

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(taking wine away). The vintage season a time of joy. Town people went out and lived among the vineyards in lodges and tents (Judg. 9:27²⁷And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech. (Judges 9:27); Isa. 16:10¹⁰And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease. (Isaiah 16:10); Jer. 25:30³⁰Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The Lord shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. (Jeremiah 25:30)). Grapes were gathered in baskets (Jer. 6:9⁹Thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets. (Jeremiah 6:9)). [WINE-PRESS.]

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