Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
Peacocks
Wings and feathers unto the
Bible References
Peacocks
1 Kings 10:22
For the fleet of Tarshish belonged to the king [and was] on the sea with the fleet of Hiram; once every three years the fleet of Tarshish used to come carrying gold and silver, ivory, apes, and baboons.
2 Chronicles 9:21
For the ships of the king went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram. Once {every three years} the ships of Tarshish came carrying gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
Wings and feathers unto the
Job 30:29
I am a companion for [the] jackals and a companion for {ostriches}.
Psalm 104:17
where birds make [their] nest. [The] stork [has] its home in [the] fir trees.
Jeremiah 8:7
Even [the] stork in heaven knows its appointed time, and [the] turtledove, and [the] swallow, and [the] song bird, they observe the time of their coming. But my people do not know the ordinance of Yahweh.
Zechariah 5:9
And I {looked up} and saw, and look!--two women coming forward, and [the] wind [was] in their wings, and they had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between the earth and the sky.