Hart

an adult male deer, especially a red deer over five years old.

Listed among the clean animals that Israel could eat.

Deuteronomy 12:15 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
Deuteronomy 12:22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
Deuteronomy 14:5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
Deuteronomy 15:22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.

Daily provisions brought to Solomon to keep his kingdom.
1 Kings 4:22-23 And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.

An illustration of how much we need God.
Psalm 42:1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

King Solomon likens his lover to a Hart.
Song of Solomon 2:9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: …
Song of Solomon 2:17 … my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
Song of Solomon 8:14 … my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart …

Isaiah writes of a coming Kingdom hen the Lord Jesus will rule the world.
Isaiah 35:6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

Jeremiah laments on the conditions of Israel after her fall to Babylon.
Lamentations 1:6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

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