30 Bible Verses about doves
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Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. The dove, however, could find no place to set its feet because there was water over all the surface of the earth. It returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and held the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.read more.
When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
Even storks know when it is time to return. Mourning doves, swallows (swifts), and cranes know when it is time to migrate. But my people do not know that I, Jehovah, am urging them to return.
If you cannot afford a sheep, you must bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to Jehovah as a guilt offering for the sin you committed. One will be an offering for sin. The other will be a burnt offering.
He (God) 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.
If you are offering a bird as a burnt offering, it must be a dove or a pigeon.
If you cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, bring eight cups of flour as an offering for the sin you committed. Never put olive oil on it or add incense to it. This is because it is an offering for sin.
When the days needed to make her clean are over, she must bring a one-year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a pigeon or a mourning dove as an offering for sin. She should bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. The priest will offer them in Jehovah's presence to pay compensation for sin and make peace with Jehovah for her. Then she will be clean from her flow of blood. These are the instructions for the woman who gives birth to a boy or a girl. If she cannot afford a lamb, she must use two mourning doves or two pigeons. One will be the burnt offering and the other the offering for sin. So the priest will pay compensation for sin and make peace with Jehovah for her and she will be clean.'
and two mourning doves or two pigeons, whatever he can afford. The one will be an offering for sin and the other a burnt offering.
He must take two mourning doves or two pigeons and come into Jehovah's presence at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting on the eighth day. He will give these birds to the priest.
The eighth day he must bring two mourning doves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Jesus went into the Temple and drove out all who were trading there. He overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those trading in doves.
When in Jerusalem he entered the temple and turned over the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of the people who sold doves.
According to God's Law they must offer a sacrifice of a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.
He found the merchants who sold oxen, sheep and doves. The moneychangers were sitting nearby.
Though you stayed among the sheep pens, you will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver, its feathers with yellow gold.
Do not deliver your turtledove (endeared) to wild beasts. Do not forget the life of your poor forever.
I cry like a swallow (swift). I mourn like a dove. My eyes are red from looking to you, Jehovah. I am terribly abused. Please come and help me.
We all growl like bears. We coo like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none. We hope for salvation, but it is far from us.
You people who live in Moab, leave your towns! Go and live on the cliffs! Be like the dove that makes its nest in the sides of a ravine.'
Some will escape to the mountains like doves frightened from the valleys. All of them will moan over their sins.
Ephraim, you are like a simpleminded, senseless dove. You call to Egypt and run to Assyria for help.
They will come trembling like birds from Egypt, like doves from Assyria. I will settle them in their homes, declares Jehovah.
It is decreed: she is uncovered! She is carried away and her handmaids moan like the sound of doves, beating on their chests.
I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
Then Jesus was baptized and came up from the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened. He saw God's Spirit coming down like a dove.
When Jesus came out of the water he saw the heavens open and the Spirit descended on him like a dove.
Holy Spirit descended upon him in a bodily form like a dove. A voice came out of heaven. He said: You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.
John said: I saw the spirit descending as a dove out of heaven upon him. I did not know he was the one. God sent me to baptize in water and said: 'You will see one upon whom the spirit descends. The same is he who baptizes in Holy Spirit.' I have seen, and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.
O my dove, you are in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs. Let me see your countenance. Let me hear your voice. For sweet is your voice, and your countenance is lovely.
From Thematic Bible
Doves » Illustrative » Of the church
(The Shulamite) I sleep, but my heart is awake. It is the voice of my beloved that knocks, saying: 'Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.'
O my dove, you are in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs. Let me see your countenance. Let me hear your voice. For sweet is your voice, and your countenance is lovely.
Doves » Dwells in rocks
You people who live in Moab, leave your towns! Go and live on the cliffs! Be like the dove that makes its nest in the sides of a ravine.'
O my dove, you are in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs. Let me see your countenance. Let me hear your voice. For sweet is your voice, and your countenance is lovely.
Doves » Offered in sacrifice
He (God) 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.
If you are offering a bird as a burnt offering, it must be a dove or a pigeon.
Doves » Illustrative » Of mourners
We all growl like bears. We coo like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none. We hope for salvation, but it is far from us.
I cry like a swallow (swift). I mourn like a dove. My eyes are red from looking to you, Jehovah. I am terribly abused. Please come and help me.
Doves » Impiously sold in the court of the temple
Jesus went into the Temple and drove out all who were trading there. He overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those trading in doves.
He told those who sold doves: Take these things away. Do not make my Father's house a house of merchandise.
Doves » Illustrative » Of the holy ghost
Then Jesus was baptized and came up from the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened. He saw God's Spirit coming down like a dove.
Doves » Sent from the ark by noah » Ge 8:8
I said: Plow new ground for yourselves, plant righteousness, and reap the blessings that your devotion to me will produce. It is time for you to turn to me, Jehovah, and I will come and pour out righteousness on you.
Doves » Characterized by » Comeliness of countenance
O my dove, you are in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs. Let me see your countenance. Let me hear your voice. For sweet is your voice, and your countenance is lovely.
Doves » Characterized by » Sweetness of voice
O my dove, you are in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs. Let me see your countenance. Let me hear your voice. For sweet is your voice, and your countenance is lovely.
Doves » Characterized by » Softness of eyes
(The Beloved) Behold, you are fair, my love. Behold, you are fair. You have doves' eyes.
Doves » Illustrative » Of the meekness of Christ
His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.
Doves » Frequents streams and rivers
His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.
Doves » The harbinger of spring
The flowers appear on the earth. The time of singing birds has come. The voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
Doves » Clean and used as food
Doves » Characterized by » Simplicity
I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
Doves » Why considered the emblem of peace
When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.
Doves » Characterized by » Richness of plumage
Though you stayed among the sheep pens, you will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver, its feathers with yellow gold.
Doves » Illustrative » (in its flight,) of the return of israel from captivity
They will come trembling like birds from Egypt, like doves from Assyria. I will settle them in their homes, declares Jehovah.
Doves » Illustrative » Of converts to the church
Who are these people that fly by like clouds and like doves to their nests?
Doves » Mournful tabering of, alluded to
It is decreed: she is uncovered! She is carried away and her handmaids moan like the sound of doves, beating on their chests.
Doves » Doves, a type of purity
I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
Though you stayed among the sheep pens, you will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver, its feathers with yellow gold.
My dove, my undefiled is the one. She is the only one of her mother; she is the choice one of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her. The queens and the concubines praised her.
Then Jesus was baptized and came up from the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened. He saw God's Spirit coming down like a dove.
Doves » Turtle doves, offered in sacrifice
He (God) 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.
If you are offering a bird as a burnt offering, it must be a dove or a pigeon.
According to God's Law they must offer a sacrifice of a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.
The eighth day he must bring two mourning doves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Righteous » Compared with » Doves
Though you stayed among the sheep pens, you will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver, its feathers with yellow gold.
Who are these people that fly by like clouds and like doves to their nests?
Rocks » Inhabited by » Doves
You people who live in Moab, leave your towns! Go and live on the cliffs! Be like the dove that makes its nest in the sides of a ravine.'
O my dove, you are in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs. Let me see your countenance. Let me hear your voice. For sweet is your voice, and your countenance is lovely.
compared to Saints » Doves
Though you stayed among the sheep pens, you will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver, its feathers with yellow gold.
Who are these people that fly by like clouds and like doves to their nests?
Valleys » Abounded with » Doves
Some will escape to the mountains like doves frightened from the valleys. All of them will moan over their sins.
