any kind of raven,
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any kind of raven,
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Every raven after his kind;
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every raven after its kinds;
Cross-references (5)
Passages linked to Leviticus 11:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Luke 12:24 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 8:7 and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.
- 1 Kings 17:4 You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
- 1 Kings 17:6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.
- Proverbs 30:17 “The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 11:15 Every raven after his kind;
Lev 11:15 Every raven after his kind;
Ver. 15. Every raven.] Unnatural to his young, whom God himself heareth and feedeth, {Psa 147:9} though they cry with a harsh note, and cry to God by implication only; and though the raven be an inauspicate bird, and a sign both of man’s punishment and God’s curse. {Isa 34:11}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain i.e. According to the several kinds of birds, known…
i.e. According to the several kinds of birds, known by this general name, which includes, besides ravens properly so called, crows, rooks, pies, &c.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Every raven after his kind. The red raven, night…
Every raven after his kind. The red raven, night raven, the water raven, river raven, wood raven, &c. this also includes crows, rooks, pies, jays, and jackdaws, &c. The raven was with the Heathens sacred to Apollo (o), is a voracious creature, and so reckoned among unclean ones, and unfit for food; nor does the care that God takes of these creatures, or the use he has made of them, contradict this; see Job 38:41.
(o) Aelian. De Animal. l. 1. c. 48. & l. 7. c. 18.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain After his kind - According to the several kinds,…
After his kind - According to the several kinds, known by this general name, which includes, besides ravens properly so called, crows, rooks, pyes, and others.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 15. Every raven] ערב oreb, a general term…
Verse 15. Every raven] ערב oreb, a general term comprehending the raven, crow, rook, jackdaw, and magpie.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the raven--including the crow, the pie.
the raven--including the crow, the pie.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 15. Every raven — This bird derives his name…
15. Every raven — This bird derives his name in Hebrew from his blackness. It is allied to the crow, which is after his kind, only smaller. It abides in solitary valleys. Pro_30:17. Since it feeds on carrion it is very unclean.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (15) And every raven.—The raven or the black bird…
(15) And every raven.—The raven or the black bird (Son_5:11), the bird of the night, as its name denotes in Heb., like the eagle, occurs frequently in the Bible. It preys upon putrid corpses (Pro_30:17), and is especially eager to pick out the eyes of the dead, and sometimes even attacks the eyes of the living. So great is its gluttony that it fills the air with its wild shrieks when searching for food (Psa_147:9; Job_38:41). Its rapacity makes the raven expel its own offspring from their nest and from the surrounding places as soon as they are able to fly, and before they are quite able to procure their own food. Indeed, the ancients believed that it forsook its young immediately after they were hatched. It was in consequence of their excessive greed and known aversion to part with anything, even for their own offspring, that the ravens were chosen to carry food to the prophet (1Ki_17:4; 1Ki_17:6), thus to make the miracle all the more striking. The phrase, “every raven after his kind,” clearly shows that the whole genus of ravens is intended, with all the raven-like birds, such as the rook, the crow, the jackdaw, the jay, &c, which abound in Syria and Palestine.
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