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Jacob’s (Israel) blessing on one of his son’s.
Genesis 49:17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

Moses and Miriam sing of Pharaoh destruction at the Red Sea. Exodus 15:1,19,21

References to the war horse: 1 Kings 10:29, 20:20,25

Horses were valuable: 2 Chronicles 1:17 And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.

Haman believes HE will be honored but it is Mordecai the Jew who will be honored by the King and ride on his horse. Esther 6:8-11

Some interesting verses using horses in comparisons:
Job 39:18-19 What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider. Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?Psalm 32:9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
Psalm 33:17 An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.
Psalm 76:6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
Psalm 147:10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
Proverbs 21:31 The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.
Proverbs 26:3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.

Isaiah makes 3 references: Isaiah 43:17, 63:13

Jeremiah makes 3 references: Jeremiah 8:6, 31:40, 51:

Amos 2:15 Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.

Zechariah makes 4 references: Zechariah 1:8, 9:10, 10:3, 12:4

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James uses the illustration of a horse being controlled by a small bit but what can control out tongue.
James 3:3 Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

John writing in Revelation warns of what is coming (Revelation 6:2-8)  and he describes the destruction as coming in on horses.

And I saw, and behold a white horse… And there went out another horse that was red: … And I beheld, and lo a black horse; … and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
Later in Revelation 9:7-17 the locusts that came out of the bottomless pit. They were like unto horses prepared unto battle; … And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
Then in Revelation 14:20 he describes how deep the blood would be:
And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
Revelation 18:13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.

A description of the Lord Jesus at his second coming riding on a white horse, ending the 7-year Tribulation, the battle of Armageddon. Revelation 19:11-21

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Listed among the clean animals that Israel could eat.

Genesis (8) God asks Abram for an offering: Genesis 15:9.
Rebekah helps Jacob deceive Isaac: Genesis 27:9
Jacob prepares to deceive Laban: Genesis 30:32-38
Jacob’s offering to Esau: Genesis 32:14
Joseph’s brothers prepare to deceive Isaac: Genesis 37:31

Exodus (1) An offering: Exodus 12:5
Leviticus (25) Laws regarding Goats and the sacrifice:
Leviticus 1:10 And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.
Leviticus 3:12, 4:23-24,28, 5:6, 7:23, 9:3, 10:15,
16:5,7-10,15,18,20-22,26-27, 17:3, 22:19,27, 23:19

Numbers (42) Numbers 7:16 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers 7:22,28,34,40,46,52,58,64,70,76,82 28:22,30 29:5,11,16,19,22,28,31,34,38

Five Goats for a sacrifice of peace offerings
Numbers 7:17 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nahshon …
Numbers 7:23,29,35,41,47,53,59,65,71,77,83,87,88

An offering for Ignorance: Numbers 15:24,27, 18:17

Deuteronomy (3) These are the beasts which ye shall eat:
Deuteronomy 14:4- 5, 32:14
1 Samuel (2) Wild goats: 1 Samuel 24:2
Sign of wealth: 1 Samuel 25:2
2 Chronicles (3) Sign of wealth: 2 Chronicles 17:11
Sin offerings: 2 Chronicles 29:21-23
Ezra (2) Offered burnt offerings: Ezra 6:17, 8:35
Job (1) Questions to Job: Job 39:1
Psalm (4) Psalm 50:9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
Psalm 50:13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Psalm 66:15 I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
Psalm 104:18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.

Proverbs (2) Proverbs 27:26 The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.
Proverbs 30:31 A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.

Song of Solomon (2) He uses similitudes: Song of Solomon 4:1, 6:5
Isaiah (2) The Lord is tired of animal Sacrifices: Isaiah 1:11, 34:6
Jeremiah (2) Similitudes: Jeremiah 50:8, 51:40
Ezekiel (6) Ezekiel 27:21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
Judgement is coming: Ezekiel 34:17-18 Ezekiel 43:22 And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.
Offerings required: Ezekiel 43:25 45:23
Daniel (3) Daniel describes a coming King: Daniel 8:5, 8, 21
Speaking of false leaders (shepherds) and the people (goats):
Zechariah (1) Zechariah 10:3 Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle.

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The Lord Jesus describes an event that is still to happen:
Matthew 25:32-33 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

The Apostle reminds believing Jews it is no longer the Blood of animals to cover their sin,
But the Blood of the Lord Jesus, which taketh away all SIN.
Hebrews 9:12-13 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

Hebrews 9:19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,

Hebrews 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

The fate of many Old Testament followers of God:
Hebrews 11:37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

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The hyrax is also called rock rabbit, is a small furry mammal. It looks like a robust, oversized guinea pig, or a rabbit with rounded ears and no tail. Hyraxes have stumpy toes with hoof-like nails; and four toes on each front foot and three on each back foot.

Psalm 104:18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.

One of the 4 little things on earth that are exceedingly wise:
Proverbs 30:26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;

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Was a favorite meat to eat. Also besides sacrifices it was used to seal a deal.

Genesis (5) Genesis 27:9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:
Genesis 37:31 And they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
Genesis 38:17 And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?
Genesis 38:20 And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman’s hand: but he found her not.
Genesis 38:23 And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.

Exodus (2) Exodus 23:19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
Exodus 34:26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
See Deuteronomy 14:21.
Sacrifice under the Law.
Leviticus (5) Leviticus 4:28 Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.
Leviticus 5:6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.
Leviticus 9:3 And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering;
Leviticus 16:5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.
Leviticus 23:19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.

Numbers (22) Numbers 7:16 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
These words are repeated 21 more times:
Numbers 7:22,28,34,40,46,52,58,64,70,76,82,87
Numbers 15:11,15:24, 28:15, 28:30, 29:5, 29:11, 29:16, 29:19, 29:25

Repeats Exodus 23:19, Exodus 34:26
Deuteronomy (1) Deuteronomy 14:21 Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s
Used in Meals:
Judges (4) Judges 6:19 And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.
Judges 13:15 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.
Judges 13:19 So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wonderously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.
Judges 15:1 But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

1 Samuel (2) 1 Samuel 10:3 Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
1 Samuel 16:20 And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
2 Chronicles (1) 2 Chronicles 35:7 And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king’s substance.
Song of Solomon (1) Song of Solomon 1:8 If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds’ tents.
During the 1000 years of peace under the Lord Jesus.
Isaiah (1) Isaiah 11:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Ezekiel (2) Ezekiel 43:22 And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.
Ezekiel 45:23 And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.

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The Lord Jesus refers to a kid while teaching about the lost son.

Luke 15:29 And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:

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Psalms 50 and 73—83 are called the “Psalms of Asaph” because his name appears in the superscription at the head of those psalms. There are 29 references to him in the Old Testament. He appears to be important to the Nation of Israel. A prominent Levite singer and seer in David’s court and was the son of Berachiah of the tribe of Levi. Even his sons and grandsons continued to serve.

2 Kings 18:18, 18:37 speak of Asaph the recorder and his son Joah.

1 Chronicles 6:39 Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea,
1 Chronicles 9:15 Zichri, the son of Asaph;
1 Chronicles 15:17 So the Levites appointed … Asaph the son of Berechiah;
1 Chronicles 15:19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed
1 Chronicles 16:5 Asaph the chief, … but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;
1 Chronicles 16:7 David delivered first this psalm to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.
1 Chronicles 16:37 … Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark (of the Lord) continually, as every day’s work required:
1 Chronicles 25:1-2 … the sons of Asaph, … who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was: Of the sons of Asaph; … under the hands of Asaph, which prophesied according to the order of the king.
1 Chronicles 25:6 All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king’s order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
1 Chronicles 25:9 Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons were twelve:
1 Chronicles 26:1 Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.

2 Chronicles 5:12 Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, … having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
2 Chronicles 20:14 Then upon … a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;
2 Chronicles 29:13 …: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
2 Chronicles 29:30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and … of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.
2 Chronicles 35:15 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, … the king’s seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

Ezra 2:41 The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred twenty and eight.
Ezra 3:10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.

Nehemiah 2:8 And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, …
Nehemiah 7:44 The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight.
Nehemiah 11:17 And … the son of Asaph, was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, …
Nehemiah 11:22 … Of the sons of Asaph, the singers were over the business of the house of God.

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Acts 18:24-28 And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures (Old Testament), came to Ephesus. This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John. And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly. And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace: For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publicly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.
Some personality controversy in Corinth:
1 Corinthians 1:12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
1 Corinthians 3:4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
But the Apostle Paul straightens it out:
1 Corinthians 16:12 As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come unto you with the brethren: but his will was not at all to come at this time; but he will come when he shall have convenient time.
TITUS 3:13 Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.

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The Psalmist gives warnings to the Shepherd of Israel (Psalm 80:1) including:

Psalm 80:13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

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