4 occurrences

'Foxes' in the Bible

So Samson went and got three hundred foxes and some sticks of fire-wood; and he put the foxes tail to tail with a stick between every two tails;

Verse ConceptsFoxesAnimals, Types OfThree To Four HundredTailsThree Hundred And Abovecats

Then firing the sticks, he let the foxes loose among the uncut grain of the Philistines, and all the corded stems as well as the living grain and the vine-gardens and the olives went up in flames.

Verse ConceptsFireArsonbranding

Take for us the foxes, the little foxes, which do damage to the vines; our vines have young grapes.

Verse ConceptsFoxesBlossomingPets

And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches.

Verse ConceptsNettlesCitadelsThornsBramblesOstriches

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