Bible Verses With Olive Branch

The olive branch is a powerful symbol of peace, hope, and renewal in the Bible. It appears in key moments of God’s interaction with humanity, representing His promises and the restoration of relationships. In this post, we’ll explore Bible verses that feature the olive branch, shedding light on its meaning and how it continues to inspire faith and reconciliation. Whether in times of challenge or peace, the olive branch reminds us of God’s enduring love and His covenant with His people.

Verses With Olive Branch

Genesis 8:11 – When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.

Zechariah 4:3 – Also there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.

Zechariah 4:11 – Then I asked the angel, “What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the lampstand?”

Romans 11:17 – If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root.

Romans 11:24 – After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

Judges 9:8 – One day the trees went out to anoint a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Be our king.’

Judges 9:9 – But the olive tree answered, ‘Should I give up my oil, by which both gods and humans are honored, to hold sway over the trees?’

Psalm 52:8 – But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God’s unfailing love for ever and ever.

Hosea 14:6 – His splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.

Deuteronomy 6:11 – Houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied.

Deuteronomy 8:8 – A land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey.

Deuteronomy 28:40 – You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.

Nehemiah 8:15 – and that they should proclaim this word and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem: “Go out into the hill country and bring back branches from olive and wild olive trees, and from myrtles, palms and shade trees, to make temporary shelters—as it is written.”

Isaiah 17:6 – Yet some gleanings will remain, as when an olive tree is beaten, leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches, four or five on the fruitful boughs,” declares the Lord, the God of Israel.

Isaiah 24:13 – So will it be on the earth and among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest.

Habakkuk 3:17 – Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls.

Micah 6:15 – You will plant but not harvest; you will press olives but not use the oil, you will crush grapes but not drink the wine.

1 Samuel 8:14 – He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants.

2 Kings 18:32 – until I come and take you to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Choose life and not death!

Amos 4:9 – Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards, destroying them with blight and mildew. Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.

1 Kings 6:23 – For the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim out of olive wood, each ten cubits high.

1 Kings 6:31 – For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors out of olive wood that were one fifth of the width of the sanctuary.

1 Kings 6:32 – And on the two olive wood doors he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.

1 Kings 6:33 – In the same way he made four-sided jambs of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall.

Jeremiah 11:16 – The Lord called you a thriving olive tree with fruit beautiful in form. But with the roar of a mighty storm he will set it on fire, and its branches will be broken.

Psalm 128:3 – Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

Zechariah 4:12 – Again I asked him, “What are these two olive branches beside the two gold pipes that pour out golden oil?”

Revelation 11:4 – They are “the two olive trees” and the two lampstands, and “they stand before the Lord of the earth.”

Luke 22:39 – Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him.

Acts 1:12 – Then the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day’s walk from the city.

Matthew 21:1 – As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples.

Mark 13:3 – As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John and Andrew asked him privately.

Luke 19:37 – When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen.

2 Chronicles 2:10 – I will give your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors of ground wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine and twenty thousand baths of olive oil.

2 Chronicles 2:15 – Now let my lord send his servants the wheat and barley and the olive oil and wine he promised.

2 Chronicles 27:5 – Jotham waged war against the king of the Ammonites and conquered them. That year the Ammonites paid him a hundred talents of silver, ten thousand cors of wheat and ten thousand cors of barley. The Ammonites brought him the same amount also in the second and third years.

Ezra 3:7 – Then they gave money to the masons and carpenters, and gave food and drink and olive oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, so that they would bring cedar logs by sea from Lebanon to Joppa, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.

Job 29:6 – when my path was drenched with cream and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil.

Psalm 104:15 – wine that gladdens human hearts, oil to make their faces shine, and bread that sustains their hearts.

1 Chronicles 27:28 – Baal-Hanan the Gederite was in charge of the olive and sycamore-fig trees in the western foothills; Joash was in charge of the supplies of olive oil.

Deuteronomy 33:24 – About Asher he said: “Most blessed of sons is Asher; let him be favored by his brothers, and let him bathe his feet in olive oil.”

Leviticus 24:2 – Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually.

Exodus 23:11 – But during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused. Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what is left. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

Deuteronomy 24:20 – When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow.

Isaiah 1:29 – You will be ashamed because of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen.

Joel 1:10 – The fields are ruined, the ground is dried up; the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the olive oil fails.

Haggai 2:19 – Is there yet any seed left in the barn? Until now, the vine and the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree have not borne fruit. From this day on I will bless you.

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