Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?

General references

Bible References

The eagle

Exodus 19:4
You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to Myself.
Leviticus 11:13
‘These, moreover, you shall detest among the birds; they are abhorrent, not to be eaten: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard,
Psalm 103:5
Who satisfies your years with good things,
So that your youth is renewed like the eagle.
Proverbs 23:5
When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.
For wealth certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.
Isaiah 40:31
Yet those who wait for the Lord
Will gain new strength;
They will mount up with wings like eagles,
They will run and not get tired,
They will walk and not become weary.
Hosea 8:1
Put the trumpet to your lips!
Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of the Lord,
Because they have transgressed My covenant
And rebelled against My law.

Make

Jeremiah 49:16
“As for the terror of you,
The arrogance of your heart has deceived you,
O you who live in the clefts of the rock,
Who occupy the height of the hill.
Though you make your nest as high as an eagle’s,
I will bring you down from there,” declares the Lord.
Obadiah 1:4
“Though you build high like the eagle,
Though you set your nest among the stars,
From there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.

General references

Proverbs 6:7
Which, having no chief,
Officer or ruler,
Matthew 24:28
Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.