Deer
According to the LORD God the Israelites could eat deer because the deer chews the cud and divides the hoof. Deer are care for by the LORD God. The wild deer are fleet of foot and swift. Deer are used symbolically.
Deer are Clean and Used for Food
However, you may slaughter and eat flesh within all your gates, whatever your heart desires, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, of the gazelle and the deer alike. (Deuteronomy 12:15).
These are the animals which are approved to eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the mountain goat, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. And every animal that parts the hoof, and cleaves the cleft into two claws, and chews the cud among the animal, that is allowed to eat. (Deuteronomy 14:4-6).
The provisions for Solomon for one day ten fatted oxen, twenty oxen from the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks which is also called a fallow deer, and fatted fowl. (1 Kings 4: 21-23).
Deer are care for by the LORD God
The deer bring forth their young they deliver their offspring and brings forth at the voice of the LORD God. Their young ones are healthy, they grow strong with grain; they depart and do not return to them. (Job 39: 1-4).
The voice of the LORD makes the deer give birth, and strips the forests bare. And in His temple everyone says, ìGlory!î (Psalms 29:9).
The deer also gave birth in the field, but left because there was no grass. (Jeremiah 14:5).
Wild Deer
The wild deer are fleet of foot. (2 Samuel 2:18).
Wild deer were swift on the mountains. (1 Chronicles 12:8).
The wild deer were hunted. (Proverbs 6:5).
Deer Used Symbolically
Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: and dwells among the heathen, and finds no rest. The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness. Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts which are deer that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer. (Lamentations 1:3-6).
As a loving deer and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; And always be enraptured with her love. (Proverbs 5:19).
He makes my feet like the feet of deer, and sets me on my high places. (Psalms 18:33).
As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? (Psalms 42:1ñ2).
The lame shall leap like a deer, And the tongue of the dumb sing. For waters shall burst forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert. (Isaiah 35:6).
The LORD God is my strength; He will make my feet like the feet of the deer, And He will make me walk on my high hills. To the Chief Musician. With my stringed instruments. (Habakkuk 3:19).
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