Birds

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Leviticus 12:6 OT

  “ ‘When the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove, for a sin offering.

• Exodus 16:12 OT

  “I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am Yahweh your God.’ ”

• Exodus 16:13 OT

  In the evening, quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.

• Numbers 11:31 OT

  A wind from Yahweh went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.

• Numbers 11:32 OT

  The people rose up all that day, and all of that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all out for themselves around the camp.

• Leviticus 14:4 OT

  then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.

• Matthew 10:29-31 NT

  “Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will, but the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

• Isaiah 38:14 OT

  I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

• Matthew 23:37 NT

  “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

• Matthew 26:34 NT

  Jesus said to him, “Most certainly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”

• Matthew 26:74 NT

  Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately the rooster crowed.

• 1 Samuel 26:20 OT

  Now therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

• Deuteronomy 14:11 OT

  Of all clean birds you may eat.

• Deuteronomy 14:20 OT

  Of all clean birds you may eat.

• Leviticus 11:13 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,

• Job 39:27 OT

  Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?

• Leviticus 11:14 OT

  the red kite, any kind of black kite,

• Job 28:7 OT

  That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon’s eye seen it.

• Deuteronomy 14:13 OT

  the red kite, the falcon, the kite after its kind,

• Leviticus 11:15 OT

  any kind of raven,

• Job 38:41 OT

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

• Leviticus 11:16 OT

  the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

• Job 30:29 OT

  I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

• Leviticus 11:17 OT

  the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,