Dove, The

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Deuteronomy 14:11 OT

  Of all clean birds you may eat.

• Genesis 15:9 OT

  He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

• Leviticus 1:14 OT

  “ ‘If his offering to Yahweh is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering from turtledoves or of young pigeons.

• Matthew 21:12 NT

  Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.

• John 2:16 NT

  To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!”

• Matthew 10:16 NT

  “Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

• Song of Solomon 2:14 OT

  My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside, let me see your face. let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.

• Song of Solomon 1:15 OT

  Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves.

• Psalms 68:13 OT

  while you sleep among the camp fires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.

• Nahum 2:7 OT

  It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her servants moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.

• Jeremiah 48:28 OT

  You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock. Be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.

• Song of Solomon 5:12 OT

  His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, washed with milk, mounted like jewels.

• Genesis 8:8 OT

  He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

• Genesis 8:10 OT

  He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.

• Genesis 8:12 OT

  He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.

• Genesis 8:11 OT

  The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.

• 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.

• Matthew 3:16 NT

  Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.

• John 1:32 NT

  John testified, saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.

• Song of Solomon 5:2 OT

  I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”

• 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.”

• Isaiah 59:11 OT

  We all roar like bears and moan bitterly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.

• Isaiah 60:8 OT

  “Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?

• Hosea 11:11 OT

  They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will settle them in their houses,” says Yahweh.