42 Bible Verses about Hunting
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He was a mighty hunter before LORD. Therefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before LORD.
For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.
And the boys grew. And Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field. And Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.
Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take venison for me.
Judah is a lion's whelp. From the prey, my son, thou have gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse him up?
And whatever man there is of the sons of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who takes any beast or bird in hunting that may be eaten, he shall pour out the blood of it, and cover it with dust.
Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand, for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not. Know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned
Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
Can thou hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions
Behold, the people rise up as a lioness, and as a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.
He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
They gape upon me with their mouth, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.
Their roaring shall be like a lioness. They shall roar like young lions. Yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver.
And he went up and down among the lions. He became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.
There is a conspiracy by her prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made her widows many in the midst thereof.
Will a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Will a young lion cry out of his den, if he has taken nothing?
The lion tore in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with prey.
Is it at thy command that the eagle mounts up, and makes her nest on high? She dwells on the cliff, and makes her home upon the point of the cliff and the stronghold. From there she spies out the prey. Her eyes behold it afar off.read more.
Her young ones also suck up blood. And where the slain are, there is she.
And though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there. And though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
I will also spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare. And I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans, yet he shall not see it, though he shall die there.
In the pride of the wicked man the poor man is hotly pursued. Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.
For among my people are found wicked men. They watch as fowlers lay in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.
And Jacob was angry, and chided with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? What is my sin that thou have hotly pursued after me?
See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hides himself, and come ye again to me of a certainty. And I will go with you, and it shall come to pass, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among a
Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of LORD. For the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when [a man] hunts a partridge in the mountains.
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon the toils. A trap shall take [him] by the heel. A snare shall lay hold on him. A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I have not gone astray from thy precepts.
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords. They have spread a net by the wayside. They have set snares for me. Selah.
Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathers, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land.
Yea, truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. And LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
They have chased me grievously like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
The devout man has perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men. They all lay in wait for blood. They hunt every man his brother with a net.
And God was with the lad, and he grew. And he dwelt in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.
The slothful man roasts not that which he took in hunting, but the substance of a diligent man [is] precious.
From Thematic Bible
Hunting » Fowling
Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of LORD. For the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when [a man] hunts a partridge in the mountains.
For man also does not know his time. As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time when it falls suddenly upon them.
Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no net is [set] for him? Shall a snare spring up from the ground, and have taken nothing at all?
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords. They have spread a net by the wayside. They have set snares for me. Selah.
Hunting » By esau
Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take venison for me.
And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who then is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou came, and have blessed him? Yea, he shall be blessed.
Hunting » Of lion
And if [my head] exalts itself, thou hunt me as a lion. And again thou show thyself marvelous upon me.
Hunting » Figurative
Hunting » Authorized in the mosaic law
And whatever man there is of the sons of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who takes any beast or bird in hunting that may be eaten, he shall pour out the blood of it, and cover it with dust.
Hunting » By ishmael
And God was with the lad, and he grew. And he dwelt in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.
Hunting » By nimrod
He was a mighty hunter before LORD. Therefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before LORD.