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Summary

And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

Of beasts

Bible References

The cedar tree

Numbers 24:6
They are like valleys stretched forth, like gardens by the river's side, like aloes that the Lord has planted, and like cedar trees beside the waters.
2 Kings 19:23
Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master, 'With my many chariots I climbed up the high mountains, the slopes of Lebanon. I cut down its tall cedars, and its best evergreens. I invaded its most remote regions, its thickest woods.
Psalm 92:12
The godly grow like a palm tree; they grow high like a cedar in Lebanon.

The hyssop

Exodus 12:22
Take a branch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and apply to the top of the doorframe and the two side posts some of the blood that is in the basin. Not one of you is to go out the door of his house until morning.
Numbers 19:18
Then a ceremonially clean person must take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all its furnishings, and on the people who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, or one killed, or one who died, or a grave.
Psalm 51:7
Sprinkle me with water and I will be pure; wash me and I will be whiter than snow.
Hebrews 9:19
For when Moses had spoken every command to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

Of beasts

Genesis 1:20
God said, "Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky."

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