Birds

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Genesis 1:20-30 OT

  God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.” God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their…

• Genesis 1:26 OT

  God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the…

• Genesis 1:28 OT

  God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

• Genesis 9:2 OT

  The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.

• Genesis 9:3 OT

  Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

• Psalms 8:5-8 OT

  For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor. You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet: All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field,…

• Jeremiah 27:6 OT

  Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant. I have also given the animals of the field to him to serve him.

• Daniel 2:38 OT

  Wherever the children of men dwell, he has given the animals of the field and the birds of the sky into your hand, and has made you rule over them all. You are the head of gold.

• James 3:7 NT

  For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind;

• Deuteronomy 14:11-20 OT

  Of all clean birds you may eat. But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey, the red kite, the falcon, the kite after its kind, every raven after its kind, the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk…

• Leviticus 11:13-20 OT

  “ ‘You shall detest these among the birds; they shall not be eaten because they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, the red kite, any kind of black kite, any kind of raven, the horned owl, the screech owl, the…

• Deuteronomy 14:12-19 OT

  But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey, the red kite, the falcon, the kite after its kind, every raven after its kind, the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk after its kind, the little owl,…

• Job 38:41 OT

  Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?

• Psalms 147:9 OT

  He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.

• Matthew 10:29 NT

  “Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will,

• Luke 12:6 NT

  “Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God.

• Luke 12:24 NT

  Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!

• Psalms 104:12 OT

  The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.

• Ecclesiastes 12:4 OT

  and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;

• Song of Solomon 2:12 OT

  The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

• Job 41:5 OT

  Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?

• 1 Kings 4:33 OT

  He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; he also spoke of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish.

• Psalms 104:17 OT

  where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the cypress trees.

• Matthew 8:20 NT

  Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”