Thematic Bible: Used as sacrifices
Thematic Bible
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Pigeons, offered in sacrifice
And he said unto him, Take me a heifer three years old, and a female goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtle dove, and a young pigeon.
And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.
And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons.
And if he is not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he has committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.
And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Ravens
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them: how much more are you better than the fowls?
He gives to the beast its food, and to the young ravens that cry.
And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
And it shall be, that you shall drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.
The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young vultures shall eat it.
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Eagles, a type of swiftness
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
You have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hastens to the prey.
Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Vultures
There shall the owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the kites also be gathered, everyone with her mate.
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Storks
Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times; and the turtledove and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the law of the LORD.
And the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
Then I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Turtle doves, offered in sacrifice
And he said unto him, Take me a heifer three years old, and a female goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtle dove, and a young pigeon.
And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons.
And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.
And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting:
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Sparrows
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
Yea, the sparrow has found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Owls
The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the hyenas, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; the night creature also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
And the ostrich, and the nighthawk, and the sea gull, and the hawk after its kind,
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Pelicans
And the white owl, and the pelican, and the carrion vulture,
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Hawks
And the ostrich, and the nighthawk, and the sea gull, and the hawk after its kind,
And the ostrich, and the nighthawk, and the sea gull, and the hawk after their kinds,
Does the hawk fly by your wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Quails
And it came to pass, that at evening the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quail from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side, and about a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two cubits high above the face of the earth.
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Swallows
Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times; and the turtledove and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the law of the LORD.
Yea, the sparrow has found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Ostriches
Gave you the proud wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Peacocks
For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
Gave you the proud wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?