Bible Dictionary: Beasts: Often Used As Instruments of Punishment

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Leviticus 26:22
I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
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Deuteronomy 32:24
They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts on them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
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Jeremiah 15:3
And I will appoint over them four kinds, said the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
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Ezekiel 5:17
So will I send on you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave you: and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword on you. I the LORD have spoken it.
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Library

The Book of Enoch
... of birds of prey for wild beasts (xc.2 ... The language used at the commencement of the
section ... the Noachian sections which are introduced often most inappropriately ...
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On Easter
... attunes her notes with her own instruments, [2118] and ... were after the manner of wild
beasts, when you ... gutturis canna," the windpipe; "organum," often used for a ...
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The World, Created by God, Still Cherished and Protected by Him. ...
... one falls among robbers, or ravenous beasts; if a ... Hence they are merely instruments,
into which God constantly ... says he, "I regret having so often used the term ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 16 the world created.htm

CHAP. II. 4-25 (2-23).
... and given over to the ravages of wild beasts; for the ... He recalls Himself to her
remembrance, first by the punishment, and then ... [Hebrew: enh] is often used of God ...
/.../hengstenberg/christology of the old testament/chap ii 25-apr 2-23.htm

The Number of those who Fought for Religion in Gaul under Verus ...
... the remains left by the wild beasts and by ... had seemed to sympathize somewhat, reproached
them often, saying, Where ... This word is used in this and the following ...
/.../pamphilius/church history/chapter i the number of those.htm

Of the Blessings with which the Creator Has Filled this Life ...
... the body, though it dies like that of the beasts, and is ... of which the smallest in
size are often the most ... Coaptatio, a word coined by Augustin, and used by him ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 24 of the blessings with.htm

Introduction to Oration ii.
... beings, or rather the term would be used in a ... degree, our tears and groans, and has
often stirred my ... and the dens of creeping things and wild beasts, viz.: the ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/introduction to oration ii.htm

The Preacher as a Patriot.
... offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; and I ... 17] They did not know that they
were being thus used. ... Very often good causes are lost or long delayed, not ...
/.../stalker/the preacher and his models/lecture iii the preacher as.htm

Concluding Word of Consolation. Doxology.
... [3997] C reads humin, as often, for hemin ... instruments," and applied to the teeth
of the wild beasts in the ... 4004] The word enteuzis, here used, means intercession ...
/.../the second epistle of clement/chap xx concluding word of consolation.htm

Pseud-Irenæus.
... which the rest endured, and force was used to compel ... their testimony not once, nor
twice, but often, and had ... prison after exposure to the wild beasts, and bore ...
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