Bullock
27 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
11 sections
- Laws Concerning: Not to be Muzzled, when Treading Grain
- Laws Concerning: Not to be Yoked with a Donkey
- Laws Concerning: Rest For
- Laws Concerning: Theft of
- Laws Concerning: Trespass By
- Symbolical
- Twelve Bronze, Under the Molten Sea in Solomon's Temple
- Uses of for Plowing
- Uses of for Sacrifice
- Uses of for Treading out Grain
- Uses of with Wagons
Laws Concerning: Not to be Muzzled, when Treading Grain
- Deuteronomy 25:4 Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
- 1 Corinthians 9:9 For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?
- 1 Timothy 5:18 For the Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and, “The worker is worthy of his wages.”
Laws Concerning: Not to be Yoked with a Donkey
- Deuteronomy 22:10 Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.
Laws Concerning: Rest For
- Exodus 23:12 For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.
Laws Concerning: Theft of
- Exodus 22:1–10 “If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters or sells it, he must repay five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep. …
Laws Concerning: Trespass By
- Exodus 21:28–36 If an ox gores a man or woman to death, the ox must surely be stoned, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the ox shall not be held responsible. …
Symbolical
- Ezekiel 1:10 The form of their faces was that of a man, and each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, the face of an ox on the left side, and also the face of an eagle.
- Revelation 4:7 The first living creature was like a lion, the second like a calf, the third had a face like a man, and the fourth was like an eagle in flight.
Twelve Bronze, Under the Molten Sea in Solomon's Temple
- 1 Kings 7:25 The Sea stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center.
- 2 Chronicles 4:4 The Sea stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center.
- Jeremiah 52:20 As for the two pillars, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands that King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.
Uses of for Plowing
- 1 Samuel 14:14 In that first assault, Jonathan and his armor-bearer struck down about twenty men in about half an acre of land.
- 1 Kings 19:19 So Elijah departed and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve teams of oxen, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah passed by him and threw his cloak around him.
- Proverbs 14:4 Where there are no oxen, the manger is empty, but an abundant harvest comes through the strength of the ox.
- Isaiah 32:20 Blessed are those who sow beside abundant waters, who let the ox and donkey range freely.
- Jeremiah 31:18 I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
Uses of for Sacrifice
- Exodus 29:3 put them in a basket, and present them in the basket, along with the bull and the two rams.
- Exodus 29:10–14 You are to present the bull at the front of the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on its head. …
- Exodus 29:36 Sacrifice a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.
- Leviticus 4:8 Then he shall remove all the fat from the bull of the sin offering— the fat that covers the entrails, all the fat that is on them,
- Leviticus 4:16 Then the anointed priest is to bring some of the bull’s blood into the Tent of Meeting,
- Numbers 7:87–88 All the livestock for the burnt offering totaled twelve bulls, twelve rams, and twelve male lambs a year old — together with their grain offerings — and twelve male goats for the sin offering. …
- Numbers 28:11–31 At the beginning of every month, you are to present to the LORD a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all unblemished, …
- Numbers 29:1 “On the first day of the seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This will be a day for you to sound the trumpets.
Uses of for Treading out Grain
- Deuteronomy 25:4 Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
Uses of with Wagons
- Numbers 7:3–8 They brought as their offering before the LORD six covered carts and twelve oxen — an ox from each leader and a cart from every two leaders — and presented them before the tabernacle. …
- 2 Samuel 6:3–6 They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart, …
Related topics
Trespass of an OxRestitutionWagonThe Ox
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.