BIRDS

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• Genesis 1:20

  God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”

• Genesis 1:21

  God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

• Genesis 1:22

  God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

• Genesis 1:23

  There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

• Genesis 1:24

  God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.

• Genesis 1:25

  God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

• Genesis 1:26

  God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and 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 earth.”

• Genesis 1:27

  God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

• Genesis 1:28

  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 1:29

  God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

• Genesis 1:30

  To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.

• Genesis 9:2

  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

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

• Leviticus 11:13

  “‘These you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and the black vulture,

• Leviticus 11:14

  and the red kite, any kind of black kite,

• Leviticus 11:15

  any kind of raven,

• Leviticus 11:16

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

• Leviticus 11:17

  the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,

• Leviticus 11:18

  the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,

• Leviticus 11:19

  the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.

• Leviticus 11:20

  “‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you.

• Deuteronomy 14:11

  Of all clean birds you may eat.

• Deuteronomy 14:12

  But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,

• Deuteronomy 14:13

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

• Deuteronomy 14:14

  every raven after its kind,

• Deuteronomy 14:15

  the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk after its kind,

• Deuteronomy 14:16

  the little owl, the great owl, the horned owl,

• Deuteronomy 14:17

  the pelican, the vulture, the cormorant,

• Deuteronomy 14:18

  the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.

• Deuteronomy 14:19

  All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.

• Deuteronomy 14:20

  Of all clean birds you may eat.

• Deuteronomy 22:6

  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.

• Deuteronomy 22:7

  You shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take for yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.

• 1 Kings 4:33

  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.

• Job 38:41

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

• Job 39:13

  “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers and plumage of love?

• Job 39:14

  For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,

• Job 39:15

  and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them.

• Job 39:16

  She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,

• Job 39:17

  because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

• Job 39:18

  When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.

• Job 39:26

  “Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?

• Job 39:27

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

• Job 39:28

  On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, on the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.

• Job 39:29

  From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.

• Job 39:30

  His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is.”

• Job 41:5

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

• Psalms 8:5

  For you have made him a little lower than God, and crowned him with glory and honor.

• Psalms 8:6

  You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

• Psalms 8:7

  All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field,

• Psalms 8:8

  The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

• Psalms 104:12

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

• Psalms 104:17

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

• Psalms 147:9

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

• Proverbs 1:17

  For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

• Ecclesiastes 2:12

  I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

• Ecclesiastes 12:4

  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;

• Isaiah 16:2

  For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

• Isaiah 46:11

  I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it.

• Jeremiah 8:7

  Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.

• Jeremiah 12:9

  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.

• Jeremiah 27:6

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

• Ezekiel 39:4

  You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be devoured.

• Daniel 2:38

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

• Daniel 7:6

  After this I saw, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird; the animal had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.

• Matthew 8:20

  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 10:29

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

• Matthew 13:32

  which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.”

• Luke 12:6

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

• 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!

• James 3:7

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

• Revelation 18:2

  He cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!