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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
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 muc…
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