Leviticus 11:13
"'These you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and the black vulture,
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
12Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination to you.
14and the red kite, any kind of black kite,
Cross References
Job 28:7That path no bird of prey knows,neither has the falcon's eye seen it.
Job 39:27Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up,and makes his nest on high?
Jeremiah 4:22"For my people are foolish, they do not know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."
Lamentations 4:19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky.They chased us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.RESH
Habakkuk 1:8Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.
Romans 1:28Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God abandoned them to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 11:10-20
9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat. 10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you: 11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination. 12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the… Read the whole commentary →