Bull

Bulls were particularly prized as sacrifices on account of their considerable value. The sacrifice of a bull was especially associated with the sin offering.

As Jacob was returning back to the land God had promised to Abraham He have to make amends to his brother Esau. The whole list is in Genesis 32:13-15.
Genesis 32:15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.

David uses Bulls to describe his enemies:
Psalm 22:12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

The Lord is testifying against Israel Psalm 50:7-15.
Psalm 50:13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Part of the Psalmist speaking of God’s goodness to Israel.
Psalm 68:30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.

Job speaks of the wicked
Job 21:10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

All of Isaiah 34 is a judgement against Israel’s enemies then and in the future Tribulation.
Isaiah 34:7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

Isaiah warns of God’s coming wrath
Isaiah 51:20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

Jeremiah 50 is a judgement against Israel’s enemies then and in the future Tribulation.
Jeremiah 50:11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;

Jeremiah 52 writes about the destruction of Isarel under Nebuzaradan (vs 16)
Jeremiah 52:20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

The apostle Paul write to believing Jews how the death of Christ has put away the Law and scarifying of Animals
Hebrews 9:13 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 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

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