From Nave’s Topical Bible
Bat
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 3Passages listed
- 3Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- General scriptures concerningLeviticus 11:19Deuteronomy 14:18Isaiah 2:20
The passages, in Bible order (3)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 3 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Leviticus 11:19
the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
Commentary on Leviticus 11:192 voices
No less than twenty species of birds, all probably then known, are mentioned under this category, and the inference follows that all which are not mentioned were allowed; that is, fowls which subsist on vegetable substances.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
In this great diversity of opinion nothing certain can be affirmed regarding it. Judging from the group with which it is classified, it must be an aquatic bird that is meant.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
- Deuteronomy 14:18
the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, or the bat.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 14:181 voice
Of all clean fowls you may eat. [4.] They are further forbidden, First, To eat the flesh of any creature that died of itself, because the blood was not separated from it, and, besides the ceremonial uncleanness which it lay under (from Lev. xi. 39 ), it is not wholesome food, nor ordinarily used among us, except by the poor.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Isaiah 2:20
In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold— the idols they made to worship.
Commentary on Isaiah 2:202 voices
(Verse 20.) Therefore cease from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for he is considered high. This was omitted by the LXX, and in the Greek copies it was added under asterisks by Origen from the edition of Aquila, which reads in Hebrew: Hedalu LachemMen Aadam Aser Nasama Baaphpho Chi Bama Nesab Hu. Where we said, he is considered high: Aquila interpreted it as, in whom he is considered high. The Hebrew word Bama (), or ὕψωμα in Greek, means 'high place' or 'exalted', which we read in both the Books of Kings and in Ezekiel.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols o gold,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed