Thematic Bible: Bull or bullock illustrative
Thematic Bible
Oxen » Bull or bullock illustrative » Of fierce enemies
Reprehend the company of spearmen, the multitude of the strong, with the lords of the peoples, trampling them underfoot with their pieces of silver; Destroy thou the peoples that delight in war.
Oxen » Bull or bullock illustrative » (firstling of,) of the glory of joseph
His beauty is like the firstborn of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns; with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth; these are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and these are the thousands of Manasseh.
Oxen » Bull or bullock illustrative » (unaccustomed to the yoke,) of intractable sinners
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou hast afflicted me, and I was chastised as an indomitable bullock: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
Oxen » Bull or bullock illustrative » (fatted,) of greedy mercenaries
Also her soldiers are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also turned back, and all fled away without stopping: because the day of their calamity was come upon them and the time of their visitation.
Oxen » Bull or bullock illustrative » (in a net,) of the impatient under judgment
Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.