What Does the Bible Say About The Raven?

1. #1Luke 12:24

   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?

   BSBConsider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!

2. #21 Kings 17:4

   And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

   BSBAnd you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

3. #3Genesis 8:7

   And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

   BSBand sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.

4. #4Psalms 147:9

   He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.

   BSBHe provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.

5. #5Job 38:41

   Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.

   BSBWho provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?

6. #6Leviticus 11:11-15

   They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination. Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you. And 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, And the vulture, and the kite after his kind; Every raven after his kind;

   BSBThey shall be an abomination to you; you must not eat their meat, and you must detest their carcasses. Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales shall be detestable to you. Additionally, you are to detest the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture, the kite, any kind of falcon, any kind of raven,

7. #7Proverbs 30:17

   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.

   BSBAs for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.

8. #81 Kings 17:6

   And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.

   BSBThe ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook.

9. #9Leviticus 11:15

   Every raven after his kind;

   BSBany kind of raven,

10. #10Deuteronomy 14:14

    And every raven after his kind,

    BSBany kind of raven,

11. #11Isaiah 34:11

    But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

    BSBThe desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.

12. #12Song of Solomon 5:11

    His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

    BSBHis head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.

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