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Ox, The

Often found wild - De 14:5

INCLUDES THE

• Bull
- Ge 32:15; Job 21:10
• Bullock
- Ps 50:9; Jer 46:21
• Cow
- Nu 18:17; Job 21:10
• Heifer
- Ge 15:9; Nu 19:2

Was clean and fit for food - De 14:4

DESCRIBED AS

• Strong
- Ps 144:14; Pr 14:4
• Beautiful
- Jer 46:20; Ho 10:11
• Not without sagacity
- Isa 1:3

Horns and hoofs of, alluded to - Ps 69:31

Lowing of, alluded to - 1Sa 15:14; Job 6:5

WAS FED

• With grass
- Job 40:15; Ps 106:20; Da 4:25
• With corn
- Isa 30:24
• With straw
- Isa 11:7
• On the hills
- Isa 7:25
• In the valleys
- 1Ch 27:29; Isa 65:10
• In stalls
- Hab 3:17

Rapid manner of collecting its food alluded to - Nu 22:4

Formed a part of the patriarchal wealth - Ge 13:2,5; 26:14; Job 1:3

Formed a part of the wealth of Israel in Egypt - Ge 50:8; Ex 10:9; 12:32

Formed a part of the wealth of the Jews - Nu 32:4; Ps 144:14

Required great care and attention - Pr 27:23

Herdmen appointed over - Ge 13:7; 1Sa 21:7

Urged on by the goad - Jud 3:31

USED FOR

• Drawing wagons &c
- Nu 7:3; 1Sa 6:7
• Carrying burdens
- 1Ch 12:40
• Ploughing
- 1Ki 19:19; Job 1:14; Am 6:12
• Earing the ground
- Isa 30:24; 32:20
• Treading out the corn
- Ho 10:11
• Sacrifice
- Ex 20:24; 2Sa 24:22
• Food
- 1Ki 1:9; 19:21; 2Ch 18:2

Often stall-fed for slaughter - Pr 15:17

Goes to the slaughter unconscious - Pr 7:22

Young of, considered a great delicacy - Ge 18:7; Am 6:4

Male firstlings of, belonged to God - Ex 34:19

Tithe of, given to the priests - 2Ch 31:6

LAWS RESPECTING

• To rest on the Sabbath
- Ex 23:12; De 5:14
• Not to be yoked with an ass in the same plough
- De 22:10
• Not to be muzzled when treading out the corn
- De 25:4; 1Co 9:9
• If stolen to be restored double
- Ex 22:4
• Of others not to be coveted
- Ex 20:17; De 5:21
• Of others if lost or hurt through neglect, to be made good
- Ex 22:9-13
• Killing a man, to be stoned
- Ex 21:28-32
• Mode of reparation for one, killing another
- Ex 21:35,36
• Straying to be brought back to its owner
- Ex 23:4; De 22:1,2
• Fallen under its burden to be raised up again
- De 22:4
• Fat of, not to be eaten
- Le 7:23

Increase of, promised - De 7:13; 28:4

Publicly sold - 2Sa 24:24; Lu 14:19

Often given as a present - Ge 12:16; 20:14

The wicked often took, in pledge from the poor - Job 24:3

Custom of sending the pieces of, to collect the people to war - 1Sa 11:7

Sea of brass rested on figures of - 1Ki 7:25

ILLUSTRATIVE

• (Engaged in husbandry,) of Ministers
- Isa 30:24; 32:20
• (Not muzzled in treading corn,) of Minister's right to
support - 1Co 9:9,10
• (Prepared for a feast,) of the provision of the gospel
- Pr 9:2; Mt 22:4
• (Led to slaughter,) of a rash youth
- Pr 7:22
• (Led to slaughter,) of saints under persecution
- Jer 11:19
• (Stall fed,) of sumptuous living
- Pr 15:17

BULL OR BULLOCK ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of fierce enemies
- Ps 22:12; 68:30
• (Firstling of,) of the glory of Joseph
- De 33:17
• (In a net,) of the impatient under judgment
- Isa 51:20
• (Fatted,) of greedy mercenaries
- Jer 46:21
• (Unaccustomed to the yoke,) of intractable sinners
- Jer 31:18

KINE ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of proud and wealthy rules
- Am 4:1
• (well favoured,) of years of plenty
- Ge 41:2,26,29
• (Lean,) of years of scarcity
- Ge 41:3; 27:30

HEIFER ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of a beloved wife
- Jud 14:18
• (Sliding back,) of backsliding Israel
- Ho 4:16
• (Taught, &c) of Israel's fondness for ease in preference to
obedience - Ho 10:11
• (Of three years old,) of Moab in affliction
- Isa 15:5; Jer 48:34
• (Fair,) of the beauty and wealth of Egypt
- Jer 46:20
• (At grass,) of the luxurious Chaldees
- Jer 50:11
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