Hunting
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Hunting in the Bible Dictionary
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Authorized in the Mosaic law
Lev 17:13
13 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.
Leviticus 17:13 -
By Nimrod
Gen 10:9
9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
Genesis 10:9 -
By Esau
Gen 27:3, 5, 30, 33
3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;
Genesis 27:35 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
Genesis 27:530 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
Genesis 27:3033 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.
Genesis 27:33 -
By Ishmael
Gen 21:20
20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
Genesis 21:20 -
Of lion
Job 10:16
16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
Job 10:16 -
Fowling
1 Sam 26:20; Ps 140:5; 141:9, 10; Prov 1:17; Eccl 9:12; Lam 3:52; Amos 3:5
20 Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
1 Samuel 26:205 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.
Psalms 140:59 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
Psalms 141:910 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.
Psalms 141:1017 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Proverbs 1:1712 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
Ecclesiastes 9:1252 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
Lamentations 3:525 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?
Amos 3:5 -
Figurative
Jer 16:16
16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
Jeremiah 16:16
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
