Cattle
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Cattle in the Bible Dictionary
- (Of the bovine species)
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Used for sacrifice
1 Kgs 8:63
63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.
1 Kings 8:63 - See Heifer
- See Offerings
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Sheltered
Gen 33:17
17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
Genesis 33:17 -
Stall-fed
Prov 15:17
17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Proverbs 15:17 -
Gilead adapted to the raising of
Num 32:1–4
1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle; 2 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying, 3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon, 4 Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
Numbers 32:1 -
Bashan suitable to the raising of
Ps 22:12; Ezek 39:18; Amos 4:1
12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
Psalms 22:1218 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
Ezekiel 39:181 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
Amos 4:1 - See Animals
- See Bull
- See Bullock
- See Cow
- See Heifer
- See Kine
- See Offering
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
