Mule
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For royal riders
2 Sam 13:29; 18:9; 1 Kgs 1:33
29 And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his mule, and fled.
2 Samuel 13:299 And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
2 Samuel 18:933 The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:
1 Kings 1:33 -
Ridden by phetic vision of the kingdom of Christ
Isa 66:20
20 And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.
Isaiah 66:20 -
As pack animals
2 Kgs 5:17; 1 Chr 12:40
17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.
2 Kings 5:1740 Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.
1 Chronicles 12:40 -
Tribute paid in
1 Kgs 10:25
25 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
1 Kings 10:25 -
Used in barter
Ezek 27:14
14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.
Ezekiel 27:14 -
By the captivity in returing from Babylon
Ezra 2:66; Neh 7:68
66 Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;
Ezra 2:6668 Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two hundred forty and five:
Nehemiah 7:68 -
In war
Zech 14:15
15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.
Zechariah 14:15
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
