Cage

How Nave’s arranged it

• For birds, uncleanJeremiah 5:27Revelation 18:2

The passages, in Bible order (2)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Jeremiah 5:27

   Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.

   ›Commentary on Jeremiah 5:272 voices

   “As a cage is full of birds,.... Jarchi and Kimchi understand it of a place in which fowls, are brought up and fattened, what we call a ‘pen’; and, so the Targum renders it, a house or place of fattening. The word is rendered a ‘basket’ in Amo 8:1 and may here design one in which birds taken in snares, or by hawking, were put. The Septuagint version, and those that follow it, render it, ‘a snare’: which agrees with what goes before.”

   “As a cage is full of birds - There is no doubt that the reference here is to a decoy or trap-cage, as Dr. Blayney has rendered it; in these the fowlers put several tame birds, which when the wild ones see, they come and light on the cage, and fall into the snare.”

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2. Revelation 18:2

   And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.

   ›Commentary on Revelation 18:21 voice

   “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen - This is a quotation from Isa 21:9: And he said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground. This is applied by some to Rome pagan; by others to Rome papal; and by others to Jerusalem. Is become - the hold of every foul spirit - See the parallel passages in the margin. The figures here point out the most complete destruction. A city utterly sacked and ruined, never to be rebuilt.”

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