Birds

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• 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.

• Job 35:11 OT

  who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

• Job 12:7 OT

  “But ask the animals, now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.

• James 3:7 NT

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

• 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.

• Leviticus 7:26 OT

  You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.

• Psalms 50:11 OT

  I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.

• Psalms 104:1-12 OT

  Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty. He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain. He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters.…

• Matthew 6:26 NT

  See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

• Luke 12:23 NT

  Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.

• 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!

• Genesis 7:3 OT

  Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.

• Ezekiel 39:17 OT

  “You, son of man, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, “Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice…

• Deuteronomy 4:17 OT

  the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,

• 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.”

• Matthew 13:4 NT

  As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.

• Genesis 15:11 OT

  The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

• Genesis 40:19 OT

  Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”

• Deuteronomy 28:26 OT

  Your dead bodies will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them away.

• Daniel 4:33 OT

  This was fulfilled the same hour on Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.

• Deuteronomy 22:6 OT

  If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young.

• Jeremiah 17:11 OT

  As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

• Jeremiah 12:9 OT

  Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field. Bring them to devour.

• Psalms 104:12 OT

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