42 Bible Verses about Hunting

He was a mighty hunter in the sight of the LORD, whereof came the proverb "he is as Nimrod, that mighty hunter in the sight of the LORD."

For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunter, and from the noisome pestilence.

and the boys grew, and Esau became a cunning hunter and a tillman. But Jacob was a simple man and dwelled in the tents.

Now therefore take thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and get thee to the fields, and take me some venison,

Judah is a lion's whelp. From spoil, my son, thou art come on high: he laid him down and couched himself as a lion, and as a lioness. Who dare stir him up?

"'Whatsoever man it be of the children of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you that hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten, he shall pour out the blood and cover it with earth.

And moreover my father, see yet the tip of thy coat in my hand. And inasmuch as I killed thee not too, when I cut off the tip of thy coat; understand and see that there is neither evil nor rebelliousness in me, and that I have not sinned against thee. And yet thou huntest after my soul to take it.

Our soul is escaped, even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler; the snare is broken and we are delivered.

Huntest thou the prey from the lion, or feedest thou his whelps

Behold, the people shall rise up as a lioness and heave up himself as a lion; and shall not lie down again, until he have eaten of the prey and drunk of the blood of them that are slain!"

The lion perisheth, for lack of prey, and the lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a lion's whelp, lurking in secret places.

They gape upon me with their mouths, as it were a rampaging and a roaring lion.

The lions, roaring after their prey, do seek their meat from God.

Their cry is as it were of a lion, and the roaring of them like lion's whelps. They shall roar, and haunch up the prey, and no man shall recover it or get it from them.

Which went among the lions, and became a fierce lion: learned to spoil, and to devour folk:

thy Prophets that are in thee are sworn together to devour souls, like as a roaring Lion that liveth by his prey. They receive riches and good, and make many widows in thee.

Doth a lion roar in the woods, except he have prey? Or crieth a Lion's whelp out of his den, except he have gotten something?

But the lion spoiled enough for his young ones, and devoured for his lioness: he filled his dens with his prey, and his dwelling place with that he had ravished.

They are passed away, as the ships that be good under sail, and as the Eagle that hasteth to the prey.

Doth the Eagle mount up, and make his nest on high, at thy commandment? He abideth in the stony rocks, and upon the high tops of hard mountains, where no man can come. From thence may he behold his pray, and look far about with his eyes.read more.
His young ones are fed with blood, and where any dead body lieth, there is he immediately."

Though they hide themselves upon the top of Carmel, yet shall I seek them out, and bring them from thence. Though they creep down from my sight into the deep of the sea, I shall command the serpent, even there to bite them.

Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied of my flesh?

Behold, sayeth the LORD, I will send out many fishers to take them, and after that will I send out many hunters to hunt them out, from all mountains and hills and out of the caves of stones.

My line will I spread out upon him, and catch him in my net, and carry him to Babylon, in the land of the Chaldeans: which he shall not see, and yet shall he die there.

While the ungodly hath the overhand, the poor must suffer persecution; let them be taken in the crafty wiliness that they have imagined!

For among my people are found wicked persons, that privily lay snares and wait for me, to take them and destroy them.

Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: Jacob also answered and said to him, "What have I trespassed or what have I offended, that thou followedest after me?

See therefore and know all the lurking places where he lurketh, and come again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you. And then if he be in the land, I will hunt him out with all the thousands of Judah.

And yet I hope my blood shall not fall to the earth before the face of the LORD, though the king of Israel be come out to hunt a flea, as men hunt the partridges in the mountains."

For his feet shall be taken in the net, and he is at his wits end. His foot shall be holden in the gilder, and the thirsty shall catch him. The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a pitfall in the way.

The ungodly have laid a snare for me; but yet swerve I not from thy commandments.

The proud have laid a snare for me, and spread a net abroad with cords, yea and set traps in my way. Selah.

Keep me from the snare that they have laid for me, and from the traps of the wicked doers.

Save thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

wherethrough the poor are oppressed on every side, and the innocents of my people are therewith robbed of judgment: that widows may be your prey, and that ye may rob the fatherless.

And Babylon shall be as a hunted or chased doe, and as a flock without a shepherd. Every man shall turn to his own people, and flee each one into his own land.

Yea, the truth is laid in prison, and he that refraineth himself from evil must be spoiled. When the LORD saw this, it displeased him sore that there was nowhere any equity.

{Tsadi} Mine enemies hunted me out sharply, like a bird; yea, and that without a cause.

There is not a godly man upon earth, there is not one righteous among men. They labour all to shed blood, and every man hunteth his brother to death:

And God was with the lad, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

A deceitful man shall find no vantage; but he that is content with that he hath, is more worth than gold.