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 9:19For 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 10:4For 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 11:37They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
The cony of the Old World and of the Bible is a mammal, the hyrax.
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 104:18The 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 30:26The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
Was a favorite meat to eat. Also besides sacrifices it was used to seal a deal.
Genesis (5) Genesis 27:9Go 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 38:17And 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 38:20And 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 38:23And 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 23:19The 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 34:26The 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 4:28Or 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 9:3And 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 7:16One 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 14:21Ye 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 6:19And 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 13:15And 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 15:1But 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 10:3Then 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 16:20And 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 35:7And 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 11:6The 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 43:22And 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 45:23And 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.
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:
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.
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 1:12Now 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 3:4For 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 16:12As 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 3:13Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.
A young cow. 19 Bible references 18 Old Testament 1 New Testament
The red heifer (Hebrew: para adumma) (female cow which is never pregnant or milked or yoked), also known as the red cow, was a cow brought to the priests as a sacrifice according to the Torah, and its ashes were used for the ritual purification of Tum’at HaMet (“the impurity of the dead”), that is, an Israelite who had come into contact with a corpse.
The Apostle Paul reminds the Jewish Believers of what was, before the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus (Hebrews 9). Hebrews 9:13For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
Before the Law, The Lord God confirmed His covenant with Abram by requiring a sacrifice. Genesis 15:9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
Under the Law, the sacrifice of the Heifer continued. Numbers 19:2This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke: Numbers 19:5-6 And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn: And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. Numbers 19:9-10 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin. And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever. Numbers 19:17And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel: Deuteronomy 21:3-4 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke; And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer’s neck there in the valley: Deuteronomy 21:6 And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
Samson puts forth a riddle. Judges 14:18 And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion? and he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
Samuel on his way to anoint David as the next King after God rejected Saul. 1 Samuel 16:2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD.
Isaiah 15:5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
Jeremiah 46:20Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
Jeremiah 48:34 From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
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;
Hosea 4:16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
Hosea 10:11And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
A young bull. 94 times in Old Testament mostly as a sacrifice animal
Exodus (7)Exodus 29:1 And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest’s office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,Exodus 29:3,10-14 Exodus 29:36And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.
Leviticus (28) Leviticus 1:5 And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. How Aaron and his sons should handle the Bullock in sacrificial offerings: Leviticus 4:3-4,7-8,10-12,14-15,20,21 Continued instructions, under the Law, for processing the Bullock in sacrificial offerings: Leviticus 8:2,14,18 9:4,18-19 16:3,6,11,14-15,18,27 Leviticus 22:23,27 23:18
Numbers (32) Offered as a sacrifice Numbers 7:15One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: Numbers 7:21,27,33,39,45,51,57,63,69,75,81, 8:8, 15:8-9,11,24 When and how to offer Bullock as offerings: Numbers 23:14,30 28:12,14,20,28 29:2-3,8-9,14,36-37
Deuteronomy (3)Deuteronomy 15:19 … firstling males … Deuteronomy 17:1 …no blemish, or any evil favouredness … Deuteronomy 33:17His glory is like the firstling of his bullock …
Judges (3)Judges 6:25-26And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it. And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down. Judges 6:28And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built.
1 Samuel (1) Parents of Samuel make an offering: 1 Samuel 1:25And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.
1 Kings (4) Elijah challenges the prophets of Baal: 1 Kings 18:23-33Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: …
2 Chronicles (1)2 Chronicles 13:9Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods
Psalm (2) Psalm 50:9I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. Psalm 69:31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
Isaiah (1) Isaiah write of the 1000 year kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ: Isaiah 65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD
Jeremiah (1) Jeremiah 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
Ezekiel (11) When, Where and How to offer a bullock for the sin offering: Ezekiel 43:19-25, Ezekiel 45:18-24, Ezekiel 46:6-7,11
10 Old Testament references: A plant-eating insect with long hind legs that are used for jumping and for producing a chirping sound. It frequents grassy places and low vegetation.
Listed among animals that can be eaten. Leviticus 11:22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
Ten of the twelve spies, not believing God’s promise of protection as they entered into the promised land, used an illustration of grasshopper to show their fear. Numbers 13:33And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
The Lord allows the Midianites to oppress Israel for 7 years (Judges 6:1-5). Judges 6:5For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.
The foe that Gideon and his 300 had to face. Judges 7:12And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
The Lord God reminds Job that He is in control of all His creations. Job 39:20Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.
No matter how bad it gets; Fear God and Keep His commandments (Ecclesiastes 12:13). Ecclesiastes 12:5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
Isaiah reminds Israel that they should know (Isaiah 40:21) that God is in control. Isaiah 40:22It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Those who will come and destroy Egypt are without number. Jeremiah 46:23They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
Amos 7:1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.
Nahum 3:17 Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
