42 Bible Verses about Hunting
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He was a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord. That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord.”
He Himself will deliver you from the hunter’s net,
from the destructive plague.
When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman, but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.
Take your hunting gear, your quiver and bow, and go out in the field to hunt some game for me.
Judah is a young lion—
my son, you return from the kill.
He crouches; he lies down like a lion
or a lioness—who dares to rouse him?
“Any Israelite or foreigner living among them, who hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten must drain its blood and cover it with dirt.
See, my father! Look at the corner of your robe in my hand, for I cut it off, but I didn’t kill you. Look and recognize that there is no evil or rebellion in me. I haven’t sinned against you even though you are hunting me down to take my life.
We have escaped like a bird from the hunter’s net;
the net is torn, and we have escaped.
A people rise up like a lioness;
They rouse themselves like a lion.
They will not lie down until they devour the prey
and drink the blood of the slain.
They are like a lion eager to tear,
like a young lion lurking in ambush.
They open their mouths against me—
lions, mauling and roaring.
Their roaring is like a lion’s;
they roar like young lions;
they growl and seize their prey
and carry it off,
and no one can rescue it.
He prowled among the lions,
and he became a young lion.
After he learned to tear prey,
he devoured people.
The conspiracy of her prophets within her is like a roaring lion tearing its prey: they devour people, seize wealth and valuables, and multiply the widows within her.
Does a lion roar in the forest
when it has no prey?
Does a young lion growl from its lair
unless it has captured something?
The lion mauled whatever its cubs needed
and strangled prey for its lionesses.
It filled up its dens with the kill,
and its lairs with mauled prey.
Does the eagle soar at your command
and make its nest on high?
It lives on a cliff where it spends the night;
its stronghold is on a rocky crag.
From there it searches for prey;
its eyes penetrate the distance.
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Its brood gulps down blood,
and where the slain are, it is there.
If they hide themselves
on the top of Carmel,
from there I will track them down
and seize them;
if they conceal themselves
from My sight on the sea floor,
from there I will command
the sea serpent to bite them.
But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, yet he will not see it, and he will die there.
In arrogance the wicked relentlessly pursue the afflicted;
let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.
for wicked men live among My people.
They watch like fowlers lying in wait.
They set a trap;
they catch men.
Then Jacob became incensed and brought charges against Laban. “What is my crime?” he said to Laban. “What is my sin, that you have pursued me?
Look and find out all the places where he hides. Then come back to me with accurate information, and I’ll go with you. If it turns out he really is in the region, I’ll search for him among all the clans of Judah.”
So don’t let my blood fall to the ground far from the Lord’s presence, for the king of Israel has come out to search for a flea, like one who pursues a partridge in the mountains.”
For his own feet lead him into a net,
and he strays into its mesh.
A trap catches him by the heel;
a noose seizes him.
A rope lies hidden for him on the ground,
and a snare waits for him along the path.
The wicked have set a trap for me,
but I have not wandered from Your precepts.
The proud hide a trap with ropes for me;
they spread a net along the path
and set snares for me.Selah
Escape like a gazelle from a hunter,
like a bird from a fowler’s trap.
to keep the poor from getting a fair trial
and to deprive the afflicted among my people of justice,
so that widows can be their spoil
and they can plunder the fatherless.
Like wandering gazelles
and like sheep without a shepherd,
each one will turn to his own people,
each one will flee to his own land.
Truth is missing,
and whoever turns from evil is plundered.
The Lord saw that there was no justice,
and He was offended.
Godly people have vanished from the land;
there is no one upright among the people.
All of them wait in ambush to shed blood;
they hunt each other with a net.
From Thematic Bible
Hunting » Fowling
So don’t let my blood fall to the ground far from the Lord’s presence, for the king of Israel has come out to search for a flea,
For man certainly does not know his time:
if there is no bait for it?
Does a trap spring from the ground
when it has caught nothing?
they spread a net along the path
and set snares for me.
Hunting » By esau
Take your hunting gear, your quiver and bow, and go out in the field to hunt some game for me.
As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had left the presence of his father Isaac, his brother Esau arrived from the hunt.
Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac said to his son Esau. So while Esau went to the field to hunt some game to bring in,
Isaac began to tremble uncontrollably. “Who was it then,” he said, “who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it all before you came in, and I blessed him. Indeed, he will be blessed!”
Hunting » Of lion
and again display Your miraculous power against me.
Hunting » Figurative
Hunting » Authorized in the mosaic law
“Any Israelite or foreigner living among them, who hunts
Hunting » By ishmael
Hunting » By nimrod
He was a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord. That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord.”
