From Nave’s Topical Bible
Nest
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 2Passages listed
- 2Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Bird's, in a rockNumbers 24:21
- Birds stirDeuteronomy 32:11
The passages, in Bible order (2)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Numbers 24:21
Next he saw the Kenites and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Your dwelling place is secure, and your nest is set in a cliff.
Commentary on Numbers 24:212 voices
Thy nest - Thy dwelling-place, so called, either because it was in an high place, as nests commonly are: or in allusion to their name, for ken in Hebrew signifies a nest.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
Kenite means "possession." And who are those who possess present things but the ones who are skilled in the study of secular wisdom? They are those who, by their study, truly build themselves a sturdy dwelling, if they make themselves into little children with humility …
Paterius· EXPOSITION OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT, NUMBERS 22, 606Patristic
- Deuteronomy 32:11
As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:112 voices
Her nest - Her young ones in the nest; which she by her cry and motion provoketh to fly. Her wings - As preparing herself to fly. On her wings - Or, as on her wings, that is, gently, and tenderly and safely too, as if she carried them not in her claws for fear of hurting them, but upon her wings.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
As an eagle stirreth up her nest,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed