Please see the note for Galatians 4:24 about the word allegory
and the explanation of how it is different from a parable
. Please also see the note for Mark 3:22 for a couple of good Bible definitions for the word parable
. Please also see the Table of Parables in the New Testament.
| History is told in proverbs to avoid it being distorted. | Numbers 21:27. |
| God spoke in parables to a king who refused to go God's way. | Numbers 23:7. |
| God uses a parable to tell man that He does not follow man's way. | Numbers 23:18. |
| Israel would conquer the people God sent them to conquer. | Numbers 23:24. |
| Prophecy of how God blessed, and would bless, Israel. | Numbers 24:1-9. |
| Another prophecy parable of God blessing Israel. | Numbers 24:15-19. |
| Balaam prophesies about several people using parables. God has him use parables so that people can not figure out the prophecy before God fulfills it. | Numbers 24:20-24. |
| This chapter tells how God will bless obedience and curse disobedience and the curse shall be so great that other nations will make a proverb about the curse. | Deuteronomy 28:37. |
| JOTHAM.--Trees making a king | Judges 9:7-15. |
| SAMSON.--Strong bringing forth sweetness | Judges 14:14. |
| NATHAN.--Poor man's ewe lamb | 2Samuel 12:1-4. |
| WOMAN OF TEKOAH.--Two brothers striving | 2Samuel 14:6-7. |
| Of the garment which was torn in pieces | 1Kings 11:30-32. |
| THE SMITTEN PROPHET.--The escaped prisoner | 1Kings 20:35-40. |
| JEHOASH, KING OF ISRAEL.--The thistle and cedar | 2Kings 14:9; 2Chronicles 25:18. |
This says: Moreover Job continued his parableand tells that the prior chapter is a parable about God's strength. |
Job 27:1. |
| Job continues a parable from the prior chapter about Godly understanding. | Job 29:1. |
| The entire chapter is about receiving Godly understanding as opposed to trusting in the things of this world. | Psalms 49. |
| We are to teach Godly understanding to our followers. | Psalms 78:2. |
| The psalmist uses a vine to illustrate the history od Israel. | Psalms 80:8-16. |
| Fools can't understand a parable. | Proverbs 26:7. |
| Fools don't realize when they mess upon the understanding of a parable. | Proverbs 26:9. |
| ISAIAH.--Vineyard yielding wild grapes | Isaiah 5:1-7; Isaiah 27:2-3. |
| Of the husbandman | Isaiah 28:23-29. |
| Jeremiah's Soiled Girdle | Jeremiah 13. |
| Jeremiah's Of the skins filled with wine | Jeremiah 13:12-14. |
| the vine is no good for building | Ezekiel 15. |
| a parable of a vine that refused to produce fruit | Ezekiel 17:5-10 |
| prophecy of Israel scattered because they refused to produce Godly fruit | Ezekiel 19:10-14. |
| two eagles | Ezekiel 17. |
| Woe to city that keeps sin after judgment. | Ezekiel 24:1-9. |
| lions' cubs | Ezekiel 19:1-9. |
| Aholah and Aholibah | Ezekiel 23. |
| The boiling pot | Ezekiel 24:3-5. |
| The gourd | Jonah 4:10-11. |
| A parable will be taken against people who hurt God's people. | Micah 2:4. |
| Wait for God's judgment against evil because His judgment will cause people to take up a parable about it. | Habakkuk 2:176. |