Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

Wings and feathers unto the

Bible References

Peacocks

1 Kings 10:22
For the king had at sea the [large cargo] ships of Tarshish with the ships of Hiram. Once every three years the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold, silver, ivory, monkeys, and peacocks.
2 Chronicles 9:21
For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks.

Wings and feathers unto the

Job 30:29

“I am a brother to [howling] jackals,
And a companion to ostriches [which scream dismally].
Psalm 104:17

Where the birds make their nests;
As for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
Jeremiah 8:7

“Even the stork in the sky
Knows her seasons [of migration],
And the turtledove, the swallow and the crane
Observe the time of their return.
But My people do not know
The law of the Lord.
Zechariah 5:9
Then I looked up, and there were two women coming out with the wind in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens.