Reptiles
30 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
21 sections
- Adder or Asp
- Chameleon
- Cockatrice or Basilisk
- Created by God
- Dragon
- Flying Fiery Serpent
- Frog
- Horseleech
- Jews Condemned for Worshipping
- Lizard
- Made for Praise and Glory of God
- No Image of Similitude of, to be Made for Worshipping
- Placed Under the Dominion of Man
- Scorpion
- Serpent
- Snail
- Solomon Wrote a History of
- Tortoise
- Unclean and not Eaten
- Viper
- Worshipped by Gentiles
Adder or Asp
- Psalm 58:4 Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
- Psalm 91:13 You will tread on the lion and cobra; you will trample the young lion and serpent.
- Proverbs 23:32 In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.
Chameleon
- Leviticus 11:30 the gecko, the monitor lizard, the common lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.
Cockatrice or Basilisk
- Isaiah 11:8 The infant will play by the cobra’s den, and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest.
- Isaiah 59:5 They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.
Created by God
- Genesis 1:24–25 And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. …
Dragon
- Deuteronomy 32:33 Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
- Job 30:29 I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
- Jeremiah 9:11 “And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
Flying Fiery Serpent
- Deuteronomy 8:15 He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.
- Isaiah 30:6 This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of …
Frog
- Exodus 8:2 But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.
- Revelation 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits that looked like frogs coming out of the mouths of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet.
Horseleech
- Proverbs 30:15 The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!’:
Jews Condemned for Worshipping
- Ezekiel 8:10 So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel.
Lizard
- Leviticus 11:30 the gecko, the monitor lizard, the common lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.
Made for Praise and Glory of God
- Psalm 148:10 wild animals and all cattle, crawling creatures and flying birds,
No Image of Similitude of, to be Made for Worshipping
- Deuteronomy 4:16 that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,
- Deuteronomy 4:18 or of any creature that crawls on the ground or fish that is in the waters below.
Placed Under the Dominion of Man
- Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
Scorpion
- Deuteronomy 8:15 He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.
Serpent
- Job 26:13 By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
- Matthew 7:10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
Snail
- Leviticus 11:30 the gecko, the monitor lizard, the common lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.
- Psalm 58:8 Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
Solomon Wrote a History of
- 1 Kings 4:33 He spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing in the wall, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.
Tortoise
- Leviticus 11:29 The following creatures that move along the ground are unclean for you: the mole, the mouse, any kind of great lizard,
Unclean and not Eaten
- Leviticus 11:31 These animals are unclean for you among all the crawling creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.
- Leviticus 11:40–43 Whoever eats from the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening, and anyone who picks up the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening. …
- Acts 10:11–14 He saw heaven open and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. …
Viper
- Acts 28:3 Paul gathered a bundle of sticks, and as he laid them on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself to his hand.
Worshipped by Gentiles
- Romans 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.