30 Bible Verses about doves

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Genesis 8:8-12

Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. The dove, however, could find no place to set its feet because there was water over all the surface of the earth. It returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and held the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.read more.
When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

Jeremiah 8:7

Even storks know when it is time to return. Mourning doves, swallows (swifts), and cranes know when it is time to migrate. But my people do not know that I, Jehovah, am urging them to return.

Leviticus 5:7

If you cannot afford a sheep, you must bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to Jehovah as a guilt offering for the sin you committed. One will be an offering for sin. The other will be a burnt offering.

Genesis 15:9

He (God) said to him: Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.

Leviticus 1:14

If you are offering a bird as a burnt offering, it must be a dove or a pigeon.

Leviticus 5:11

If you cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, bring eight cups of flour as an offering for the sin you committed. Never put olive oil on it or add incense to it. This is because it is an offering for sin.

Leviticus 12:6-8

When the days needed to make her clean are over, she must bring a one-year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a pigeon or a mourning dove as an offering for sin. She should bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. The priest will offer them in Jehovah's presence to pay compensation for sin and make peace with Jehovah for her. Then she will be clean from her flow of blood. These are the instructions for the woman who gives birth to a boy or a girl. If she cannot afford a lamb, she must use two mourning doves or two pigeons. One will be the burnt offering and the other the offering for sin. So the priest will pay compensation for sin and make peace with Jehovah for her and she will be clean.'

Leviticus 14:22

and two mourning doves or two pigeons, whatever he can afford. The one will be an offering for sin and the other a burnt offering.

Leviticus 15:14

He must take two mourning doves or two pigeons and come into Jehovah's presence at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting on the eighth day. He will give these birds to the priest.

Numbers 6:10

The eighth day he must bring two mourning doves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

Mark 11:15

When in Jerusalem he entered the temple and turned over the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of the people who sold doves.

Luke 2:24

According to God's Law they must offer a sacrifice of a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.

John 2:14

He found the merchants who sold oxen, sheep and doves. The moneychangers were sitting nearby.

Psalm 68:13

Though you stayed among the sheep pens, you will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver, its feathers with yellow gold.

Psalm 74:19

Do not deliver your turtledove (endeared) to wild beasts. Do not forget the life of your poor forever.

Isaiah 38:14

I cry like a swallow (swift). I mourn like a dove. My eyes are red from looking to you, Jehovah. I am terribly abused. Please come and help me.

Isaiah 59:11

We all growl like bears. We coo like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none. We hope for salvation, but it is far from us.

Jeremiah 48:28

You people who live in Moab, leave your towns! Go and live on the cliffs! Be like the dove that makes its nest in the sides of a ravine.'

Ezekiel 7:16

Some will escape to the mountains like doves frightened from the valleys. All of them will moan over their sins.

Hosea 7:11

Ephraim, you are like a simpleminded, senseless dove. You call to Egypt and run to Assyria for help.

Hosea 11:11

They will come trembling like birds from Egypt, like doves from Assyria. I will settle them in their homes, declares Jehovah.

Nahum 2:7

It is decreed: she is uncovered! She is carried away and her handmaids moan like the sound of doves, beating on their chests.

John 1:32-34

John said: I saw the spirit descending as a dove out of heaven upon him. I did not know he was the one. God sent me to baptize in water and said: 'You will see one upon whom the spirit descends. The same is he who baptizes in Holy Spirit.' I have seen, and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.

Song of Solomon 2:14

O my dove, you are in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs. Let me see your countenance. Let me hear your voice. For sweet is your voice, and your countenance is lovely.

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Doves » Illustrative » Of the church

Song of Solomon 5:2

(The Shulamite) I sleep, but my heart is awake. It is the voice of my beloved that knocks, saying: 'Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.'

Song of Solomon 2:14

O my dove, you are in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs. Let me see your countenance. Let me hear your voice. For sweet is your voice, and your countenance is lovely.

Doves » Dwells in rocks

Jeremiah 48:28

You people who live in Moab, leave your towns! Go and live on the cliffs! Be like the dove that makes its nest in the sides of a ravine.'

Song of Solomon 2:14

O my dove, you are in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs. Let me see your countenance. Let me hear your voice. For sweet is your voice, and your countenance is lovely.

Doves » Offered in sacrifice

Genesis 15:9

He (God) said to him: Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.

Leviticus 1:14

If you are offering a bird as a burnt offering, it must be a dove or a pigeon.

Doves » Illustrative » Of mourners

Isaiah 59:11

We all growl like bears. We coo like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none. We hope for salvation, but it is far from us.

Isaiah 38:14

I cry like a swallow (swift). I mourn like a dove. My eyes are red from looking to you, Jehovah. I am terribly abused. Please come and help me.

Doves » Impiously sold in the court of the temple

John 2:16

He told those who sold doves: Take these things away. Do not make my Father's house a house of merchandise.

Doves » Illustrative » Of the holy ghost

Doves » Sent from the ark by noah » Ge 8:8

Hosea 10:12

I said: Plow new ground for yourselves, plant righteousness, and reap the blessings that your devotion to me will produce. It is time for you to turn to me, Jehovah, and I will come and pour out righteousness on you.

Doves » Characterized by » Comeliness of countenance

Song of Solomon 2:14

O my dove, you are in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs. Let me see your countenance. Let me hear your voice. For sweet is your voice, and your countenance is lovely.

Doves » Characterized by » Sweetness of voice

Song of Solomon 2:14

O my dove, you are in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs. Let me see your countenance. Let me hear your voice. For sweet is your voice, and your countenance is lovely.

Doves » Characterized by » Softness of eyes

Song of Solomon 1:15

(The Beloved) Behold, you are fair, my love. Behold, you are fair. You have doves' eyes.

Doves » Illustrative » Of the meekness of Christ

Song of Solomon 5:12

His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.

Doves » Frequents streams and rivers

Song of Solomon 5:12

His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.

Doves » The harbinger of spring

Song of Solomon 2:12

The flowers appear on the earth. The time of singing birds has come. The voice of the turtle is heard in our land.

Doves » Clean and used as food

Deuteronomy 14:11

You may eat any clean bird.

Doves » Characterized by » Simplicity

Doves » Why considered the emblem of peace

Genesis 8:11

When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.

Doves » Characterized by » Richness of plumage

Psalm 68:13

Though you stayed among the sheep pens, you will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver, its feathers with yellow gold.

Doves » Illustrative » (in its flight,) of the return of israel from captivity

Hosea 11:11

They will come trembling like birds from Egypt, like doves from Assyria. I will settle them in their homes, declares Jehovah.

Doves » Illustrative » Of converts to the church

Isaiah 60:8

Who are these people that fly by like clouds and like doves to their nests?

Doves » Mournful tabering of, alluded to

Nahum 2:7

It is decreed: she is uncovered! She is carried away and her handmaids moan like the sound of doves, beating on their chests.

Doves » Doves, a type of purity

Psalm 68:13

Though you stayed among the sheep pens, you will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver, its feathers with yellow gold.

Song of Solomon 6:9

My dove, my undefiled is the one. She is the only one of her mother; she is the choice one of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her. The queens and the concubines praised her.

Doves » Turtle doves, offered in sacrifice

Genesis 15:9

He (God) said to him: Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.

Leviticus 1:14

If you are offering a bird as a burnt offering, it must be a dove or a pigeon.

Luke 2:24

According to God's Law they must offer a sacrifice of a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.

Numbers 6:10

The eighth day he must bring two mourning doves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

Righteous » Compared with » Doves

Psalm 68:13

Though you stayed among the sheep pens, you will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver, its feathers with yellow gold.

Isaiah 60:8

Who are these people that fly by like clouds and like doves to their nests?

Rocks » Inhabited by » Doves

Jeremiah 48:28

You people who live in Moab, leave your towns! Go and live on the cliffs! Be like the dove that makes its nest in the sides of a ravine.'

Song of Solomon 2:14

O my dove, you are in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs. Let me see your countenance. Let me hear your voice. For sweet is your voice, and your countenance is lovely.

compared to Saints » Doves

Psalm 68:13

Though you stayed among the sheep pens, you will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver, its feathers with yellow gold.

Isaiah 60:8

Who are these people that fly by like clouds and like doves to their nests?

Valleys » Abounded with » Doves

Ezekiel 7:16

Some will escape to the mountains like doves frightened from the valleys. All of them will moan over their sins.

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