Thematic Bible: Mouse


Thematic Bible



“Those who dedicate and purify themselves to enter the groves following their leader, eating meat from pigs, vermin, and rats, will perish together.”

This is the Lord’s declaration.

“These creatures that swarm on the ground are unclean for you:

the weasel, the mouse,
any kind of large lizard,


The number of gold mice also corresponded to the number of Philistine cities of the five rulers, the fortified cities and the outlying villages. The large rock on which the ark of the Lord was placed is in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh to this day.

Then they put the ark of the Lord on the cart, along with the box containing the gold mice and the images of their tumors.

They asked, "What guilt offering should we send back to Him?" And they answered, "Five gold tumors and five gold mice [corresponding to] the number of Philistine rulers, since there was one plague for both you and your rulers. Make images of your tumors and of your mice that are destroying the land. Give glory to Israel's God, and perhaps He will stop oppressing you, your gods, and your land.


“Those who dedicate and purify themselves to enter the groves following their leader, eating meat from pigs, vermin, and rats, will perish together.”

This is the Lord’s declaration.


“These creatures that swarm on the ground are unclean for you:

the weasel, the mouse,
any kind of large lizard,


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