Thematic Bible: Heifer illustrative
Thematic Bible
Oxen » Heifer illustrative » (of three years old,) of moab in affliction
My heart cries out for Moab;
His fugitives are [fleeing] as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah.
For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping;
For on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress over their destruction.
From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have raised their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will become desolations.
Oxen » Heifer illustrative » (fair,) of the beauty and wealth of egypt
“Egypt is a very pretty heifer,
But a horsefly (Babylonia) is coming [against her] out of the north!
Oxen » Heifer illustrative » (at grass,) of the luxurious chaldees
“Though you are glad, though you rejoice,
O you who plunder My heritage,
Though you are wanton and skip about like a heifer in the grass
And neigh like stallions,
Oxen » Heifer illustrative » Of a beloved wife
So the men of the city said to Samson on the seventh day before sundown,
“What is sweeter than honey?
What is stronger than a lion?”
And he said to them,
“If you had not plowed with my heifer,
You would not have solved my riddle.”
What is stronger than a lion?”
And he said to them,
You would not have solved my riddle.”
Oxen » Heifer illustrative » (taught, &c) of israel's fondness for ease in preference to obedience
Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to tread out the grain,
But I will come over her fair neck with a heavy yoke [for hard field work].
I will harness Ephraim;
Judah will plow and Jacob will harrow and rake for himself.
Oxen » Heifer illustrative » (sliding back,) of backsliding israel
For Israel is stubborn,
Like a stubborn heifer.
Can the Lord now pasture them
Like a lamb in a large field?