Fowls
The Levitical Law tells us the clean fowls are: Chicken, Dove, Duck, Goose, Grouse, Guinea fowl, Partridge, Peafowl, Pheasant, Pigeon, Prairie chicken, Ptarmigan, Quail, Sage hen, Sparrow (and other songbirds), Teal, and Turkey.
The Levitical Law tells us the unclean fowls are: Birds of Prey, Scavengers the Albatross, Bittern, Buzzard, Condor, Coot, Cormorant, Crane, Crow, Cuckoo, Eagle, Flamingo Grebe, Grosbeak, Gull, Hawk, Heron, Kite, Lapwing, Loon, Magpie, Osprey, Ostrich, Owl, Parrot, Pelican, Penguin, Plover, Rail, Raven, Roadrunner, Sandpiper, Seagull, Stork, Swallow, Swift, Vulture, Water hen, and Woodpecker’s.
The LORD God commanded the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that has life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. The LORD God created great whales, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and the LORD God saw that it was good. The LORD God blessed them, and said to let fowl multiply in the earth. Man was to be made in the image of the LORD and man was to have dominion over the fowl of the air. (Genesis 1:20-30).
Noah and his family and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that crept upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort entered the ark. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that crept upon the earth, and every man. Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. (Genesis 7:13-23).
The Lord God blessed Noah built an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. (Genesis 8: 20).
The LORD God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moves upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. Every living creature that was with Noah, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. (Genesis 9: 1-10).
Leviticus tell us we shall eat any manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings. (Leviticus 7:26).This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps upon the earth: To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten. (Leviticus 11:46-47). And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunts and catches any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. (Leviticus 17:13).
And these are they which you shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, and the vulture, and the kite after his kind; every raven after his kind; And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl, And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you. (Leviticus 11:13-20).
The children of Israel were given the statutes and judgments of the LORD God. They were instructed not to take any form, image, likeness, representation, semblance the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flies in the air, anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth. The warning is clear that if they do make these images or likenesses they would corrupt themselves. (Deuteronomy 4:15-18).
The Philistine cursed David by his gods. And the Philistine threatened David telling him to come to me, and I will give your flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field. Then David said to the Philistine, you come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. David continued to tell the Philistine that this day will the LORD deliver you into mine hand; and I will smite you, and take your head from you; and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. This was so all this assembly shall know that the LORD saves not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORDíS, and he will give you into our hands. (1 Samuel 17:44-47).
The Old Testament tells: He that dies of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; dies of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat. For the LORD hath spoken it. (1 Kings 14:11). He that dies of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dies of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat. (1 Kings 16:4). He that dies of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dies in the field shall the fowls of the air eat. (1 Kings 21:24).
There were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us. Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people. (Nehemiah 5:17-18).
The examples of fowls of the air found in Job. Job said to ask the beasts and they shall teach you; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell you. (Job 12:7). Where then comes wisdom and where is the place of understanding? Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept concealed from the fowls of the air. (Job 28:20-21). Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven? (Job 35:11).
The book of Psalms tells us that we know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are ours. (Psalms 50:11). The LORD rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: (Psalms 78:27). ´ A Psalm of Asaph. ª O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. (Psalms 79:1-3).
He send the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills. They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst. By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches. (Psalms 104:10-12).
The prophet Isaiah tells us: so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion. (Isaiah 18:4-7).
The prophet Jeremiah says the days come, said the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet (a place in the southeast end of the valley of the son of Hinnom (a valley deep and narrow ravine with steep, rocky sides located southwest of Jerusalem, separating Mount Zion to the north from the hill of evil counsel’ and the sloping rocky plateau of the plain of Rephaimí to the south, south of Jerusalem.), nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place. And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away. (Jeremiah 7:33).
The LORD said He would appoint over them four kinds: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy. (Jeremiah 15:3). They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. (Jeremiah 16:4). And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. (Jeremiah 19:7). I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth. (Jeremiah 34:20).
The Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon all the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations. Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches: (Ezekiel 31:6-13). Thus said the Lord GOD; ìI will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net. Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.î (Ezekiel 32:4). The fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. (Ezekiel 38:20).
The prophet Daniel tells us the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven has the LORD into the hands of men and has made man ruler over them all. (Daniel 2:38). The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it. He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches: Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation: (Daniel 4:12-21).
The New Testament refers to the fowls of the air as an example for us not to worry. The fowl of the air do nothing for their food, the do not sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. We are much better than they. (Matthew 6:26).
And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. ). Jesus explains the mystery of the sower who sows the word. These are the ones that fall by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan comes immediately, and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts. (Mark 4:4; 14-15: Matthew 13:4: Luke 8:5). Jesus, in a parable refers to the mustard seed being the smallest seeds but when it is sown, it grows up, and becomes greater than all herbs, and shootout great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it. (Mark 4:32).
John in Revelation saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh. (Revelation 19:17-21).
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