Eagle

How Nave’s arranged it

• Forbidden as foodLeviticus 11:13Deuteronomy 14:12
• The swift flight ofDeuteronomy 28:49Job 9:26Proverbs 30:19Jeremiah 4:13Jeremiah 49:22Lamentations 4:19
• The nest ofDeuteronomy 32:11Job 39:27–30Jeremiah 49:16
• Carries her young upon her wingsExodus 19:4Deuteronomy 32:11
• The long life ofPsalms 103:5
• The molting ofMicah 1:16
• Gier-eagleLeviticus 11:18
• FIGURATIVEExodus 19:4Deuteronomy 32:11Jeremiah 48:40Hosea 8:1
• SYMBOLICALEzekiel 1:10Ezekiel 10:14Ezekiel 17:3Daniel 7:4Revelation 4:7Revelation 12:14

The passages, in Bible order (23)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 19:4

   ‘You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 19:41 voice

   “How I bare you on eagles’ wings - Mr. Bruce contends that the word נשר nesher does not mean the bird we term eagle; but a bird which the Arabs, from its kind and merciful disposition, call rachama, which is noted for its care of its young, and its carrying them upon its back. See his Travels, vol. vii., pl.

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2. Leviticus 11:13

   Additionally, you are to detest the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 11:131 voice

   “He adds too that they are not to eat "kite or mastophage or eagle," meaning "You shall not go near those who make their livelihood by plundering others." He says other similar things under some sort of allegory.

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3. Leviticus 11:18

   the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 11:181 voice

   “The swan - תנשמת tinshemeth. The Septuagint translate the word by πορφυριωνα, the porphyrion, purple or scarlet bird. Could we depend on this translation, we might suppose the flamingo or some such bird to be intended. Some suppose the goose to be meant, but this is by no means likely, as it cannot be classed either among ravenous or unclean fowls. Bochart thinks the owl is meant. The pelican - קאת kaath.

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4. Deuteronomy 14:12

   but these you may not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

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5. Deuteronomy 28:49

   The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:491 voice

   “A nation - from far - Probably the Romans. As the eagle flieth - The very animal on all the Roman standards. The Roman eagle is proverbial. Whose tongue thou shalt not understand - The Latin language, than which none was more foreign to the structure and idiom of the Hebrew.

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6. Deuteronomy 32:11

   As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:111 voice

   “Finally, listen to Moses saying: He spread his wings and took them, and carried them on his shoulders (Deuteronomy 32:11): just as an eagle carries its offspring, which it is accustomed to examine; in order to hold and nurture those who have the true nature of birth, and to observe the grace of incorruptible nature; or to reject those in whom it has detected the weakness of a degenerate origin at a tender age.

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7. Job 9:26

   They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

   ›Commentary on Job 9:261 voice

   “They are passed away as the ships carrying fruits. They that traverse seas transporting fruits, do themselves indeed enjoy the smell of the same, but the food thereof they convey to others. What else then did the ancient Fathers shew themselves, saving ships carrying fruits? They indeed in foretelling the mystery of God's Incarnation, themselves enjoyed the sweet odour of hope, but to ourselves they brought down the fruit by the completion of that hope. For what they but smelled at in expecting, we are replenished with in seeing and receiving.

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8. Job 39:27–30

   Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high?

   ›Commentary on Job 39:27–302 voices

   “Will the eagle mount up at thy command, and make for thee her nest in high places. 94. In Holy Scripture, by the word 'eagle' are sometimes designated malignant spirits, the spoilers of souls, sometimes the powers of the present world, but sometimes either the very subtle understandings of the Saints, or the Incarnate Lord, swiftly flying over things below, and presently seeking again those on high.

   “Doth the eagle mount up at thy command? - Margin, as in Hebrew, “by thy mouth.” The meaning is, that Job had not power to direct or order the eagle in his lofty flight. The eagle has always been celebrated for the height to which it ascends. When Ramond had reached the summit of Mount Perdu, the highest of the Pyrenees, he perceived no living creature but an eagle which passed above him, flying with inconceivable rapidity in direct opposition to a furious wind. “Edin.

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9. Psalms 103:5

   who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

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10. Proverbs 30:19

    the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship at sea, and the way of a man with a maiden.

    ›Commentary on Proverbs 30:192 voices

    “An eagle and a ship and a serpent are not of one family and nature but of a distinguishable and different substance, and yet they are three. On the testimony of Scripture, therefore, [the Arians] learn that their arguments are against themselves.Therefore, in saying that the substance of the Father and of the Son is diverse and their Godhead distinguishable, [the Arians] themselves assert there are two gods. But we, when we confess the Father and the Son, in declaring them still to be of one Godhead, say that there are not two gods but one God.

    “Neither against the rock on which Christ builds the church nor against the church will the gates of hades prevail; just as the way of a serpent upon a rock, according to what is written in the Proverbs, cannot be found. Now, if the gates of hades prevail against any one, such cannot be a rock upon which Christ builds the church.

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11. Jeremiah 4:13

    Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!

    ›Commentary on Jeremiah 4:131 voice

    “His troops move on in large masses like dark threatening clouds Joe 2:2. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled - Jeremiah’s own cry of grief.

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12. Jeremiah 48:40

    For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, an eagle swoops down and spreads his wings against Moab.

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    “For thus saith the Lord, behold, he shall fly as an eagle,.... The enemy, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, with his army; who is compared to an eagle for his strength, swiftness, and greediness after the prey: and shall spread his wings over Moab; as an eagle spreads its wings, which are very large, over the little birds it seizes upon as its prey; so the king of Babylon would bring a numerous army against Moab, and spread it over his country.

    “The rapid and irresistible attack of Nebuchadnezzar is compared to the impetuous dash of the eagle on its prey Deu 28:49.

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13. Jeremiah 49:16

    The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.

    ›Commentary on Jeremiah 49:161 voice

    “Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart,.... Some render it, "thine idol" (o); see 1Ki 15:13; which, being terrible to them, they thought it might be so to others, and protect them. In the place referred to the word "miphlezeth" is used, and comes from the same root with this, which signifies to be terrible and formidable, and cause to tremble, as the idols of the Gentiles were to their worshippers, and others.

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14. Jeremiah 49:22

    Look! An eagle will soar and swoop down, spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s mighty men will be like the heart of a woman in labor.

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15. Lamentations 4:19

    Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.

    ›Commentary on Lamentations 4:191 voice

    “Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heavens,.... That fly in the heavens; and which, as they have a quick sight to discern their prey afar off, are very swift to pursue it; they are the swiftest of birds, and are so to a proverb. Apuleius (i) represents the swift pursuit of their prey, and sudden falling upon it, to be like thunder and lightning.

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16. Ezekiel 1:10

    The form of their faces was that of a man, and each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, the face of an ox on the left side, and also the face of an eagle.

    ›Commentary on Ezekiel 1:101 voice

    “(Verse 10.) The likeness of their faces, the face of a man and the face of a lion on their right side, and the face of an ox on their left side, and the face of an eagle above them. The faces represent the beginning of the Gospels, in which the human and lion symbolize the birth of Christ and the voice of the prophets thundering in the wilderness on the right side.

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