42 Bible Verses about Hunting

He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah: wherefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Jehovah.

For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the deadly pestilence.

And the boys grew. And Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field. And Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.

Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.

Judah is a lion's whelp; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up: He stooped down, he couched as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?

And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who taketh in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.

Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned against thee, though thou huntest after my life to take it.

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: The snare is broken, and we are escaped.

Canst thou hunt the prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

Behold, the people riseth up as a lioness, And as a lion doth he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, And drink the blood of the slain.

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.

He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

They gape upon me with their mouth, As a ravening and a roaring lion.

The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their food from God.

their roaring shall be like a lioness, they shall roar like young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver.

And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in the midst thereof.

Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?

The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with ravin.

They are passed away as the swift ships; As the eagle that swoopeth on the prey.

Is it at thy command that the eagle mounteth up, And maketh her nest on high? On the cliff she dwelleth, and maketh her home, Upon the point of the cliff, and the stronghold. From thence she spieth out the prey; Her eyes behold it afar off.read more.
Her young ones also suck up blood: And where the slain are, there is she.

And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and it shall bite them.

Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith Jehovah, and they shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.

In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.

For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me?

See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.

Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Jehovah: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils. A gin shall take him by the heel, And a snare shall lay hold on him. A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way.

The wicked have laid a snare for me; Yet have I not gone astray from thy precepts.

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. Selah

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, And from the gins of the workers of iniquity.

Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter , And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathereth, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land.

Yea, truth is lacking; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.

The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

And God was with the lad, and he grew. And he dwelt in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.

The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting; But the precious substance of men is to the diligent.