In the creation account, God provided humans with an abundance of plant life, including herbs, for food and sustenance, as seen in Genesis 1:29-31. These plants were given to both humans and animals to eat, as noted in Genesis 1:30 and Genesis 9:3. The Bible also highlights the value of herbs in everyday life, such as in Proverbs 15:17, which contrasts a meal of herbs with one of luxury. The use of herbs is thus presented as a simple yet satisfying aspect of life, reflecting God's provision and care for His creation.
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Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.
Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.
Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food. And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”
A jar of sour wine was sitting there. So they soaked a sponge in the wine, put it on a stalk of hyssop, and lifted it to His mouth. When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished.” And bowing His head, He yielded up His spirit.
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.
Such people are to observe it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;
They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.
Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.
He spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing in the wall, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.