Leviticus 11:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

Leviticus 11:13 —

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Cross-References

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Deuteronomy 14:12-20
But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, …
Hosea 8:1
Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
Job 38:41
Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
Matthew 24:28
For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
Jeremiah 4:22
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Topics

Animals Birds Clean and Unclean Animals Creation Eagle Eating Food Hygiene

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-19)

Here is, 1. A general rule concerning fishes, which were clean and which not. All that had fins and scales they might eat, and only those odd sorts of water-animals that have not were forbidden, Lev. 11:9, 10. The ancients accounted fish the most delicate food (so far were they from allowing it on fasting-days, or making it an instance of mortification to eat fish); therefore God did not lay much…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13-19. these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls--All birds of prey are particularly ranked in the class unclean; all those which feed on flesh and carrion. No less than twenty species of birds, all probably then known, are mentioned under this category, and the inference follows that all which are not mentioned were allowed; that is, fowls which subsist on vegetable substa…