the Domestic Donkey
42 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
28 sections
- Fond of Ease
- Formed a Part of Patriarchal Wealth
- Governed by a Bridle
- Judges of Israel Rode on White
- Later Counted As an Ignoble Creature
- Laws Respecting: Astray, to be Brought Back to Its Owners
- Laws Respecting: Astray, to be Taken Care of Till Its Owner Appeared
- Laws Respecting: Christ Entered Jerusalem On
- Laws Respecting: Fallen Under a Burden, to be Assisted
- Laws Respecting: First-Born of, If not Redeemed, to Have Its Neck Broken
- Laws Respecting: Not to be Coveted
- Laws Respecting: Not to be Yoked with an Ox
- Laws Respecting: To Enjoy the Rest of the Sabbath
- Miracles Connected With: A Thousand Men Slain by Samson with a Jaw-Bone of
- Miracles Connected With: Eaten During Famine in Samaria
- Miracles Connected With: Mouth of Balaam's Opened to Speak
- Miracles Connected With: Not Torn by a Lion
- Miracles Connected With: Water Brought from the Jaw-Bone of
- Not Devoid of Instinct
- Often Fed on Vine-Leaves
- Often Taken Unlawfully by Corrupt Rulers
- Persons of Rank Rode On
- Strong
- Trusty Persons Appointed to Take Care of
- Unclean
- Urged on with a Staff
- Women often Rode On
- Young, Most Valued for Labour
Fond of Ease
- Genesis 49:14–15 Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds. …
Formed a Part of Patriarchal Wealth
- Genesis 12:16 He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.
- Genesis 30:43 Thus Jacob became exceedingly prosperous. He owned large flocks, maidservants and menservants, and camels and donkeys.
- Job 1:3 and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.
- Job 42:12 So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
Governed by a Bridle
- Proverbs 26:3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!
Judges of Israel Rode on White
- Judges 5:10 You who ride white donkeys, who sit on saddle blankets, and you who travel the road, ponder
Later Counted As an Ignoble Creature
- Jeremiah 22:19 He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.
Laws Respecting: Astray, to be Brought Back to Its Owners
- Exodus 23:4 If you encounter your enemy’s stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.
- Deuteronomy 22:1 If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother.
Laws Respecting: Astray, to be Taken Care of Till Its Owner Appeared
- Deuteronomy 22:2–3 If your brother does not live near you, or if you do not know who he is, you are to take the animal home to remain with you until your brother comes seeking it; then you can return it to him. …
Laws Respecting: Christ Entered Jerusalem On
- Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
- John 12:14 Finding a young donkey, Jesus sat on it, as it is written:
Laws Respecting: Fallen Under a Burden, to be Assisted
- Exodus 23:5 If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must help him with it.
Laws Respecting: First-Born of, If not Redeemed, to Have Its Neck Broken
- Exodus 13:13 You must redeem every firstborn donkey with a lamb, and if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. And every firstborn of your sons you must redeem.
- Exodus 34:20 You must redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb; but if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before Me empty-handed.
Laws Respecting: Not to be Coveted
- Exodus 20:17 You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
Laws Respecting: Not to be Yoked with an Ox
- Deuteronomy 22:10 Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.
Laws Respecting: To Enjoy the Rest of the Sabbath
- Deuteronomy 5:14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work— neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the …
Miracles Connected With: A Thousand Men Slain by Samson with a Jaw-Bone of
- Judges 15:19 So God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he was revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, and it remains in Lehi to this day.
Miracles Connected With: Eaten During Famine in Samaria
- 2 Kings 6:25 So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.
Miracles Connected With: Mouth of Balaam's Opened to Speak
- Numbers 22:28 Then the LORD opened the donkey’s mouth, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?”
- 2 Peter 2:16 But he was rebuked for his transgression by a donkey, otherwise without speech, that spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
Miracles Connected With: Not Torn by a Lion
- 1 Kings 13:28 and he went and found the body lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. The lion had not eaten the body or mauled the donkey.
Miracles Connected With: Water Brought from the Jaw-Bone of
- Judges 15:19 So God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he was revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, and it remains in Lehi to this day.
Not Devoid of Instinct
- Isaiah 1:3 The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
Often Fed on Vine-Leaves
- Genesis 49:11 He ties his donkey to the vine, his colt to the choicest branch. He washes his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.
Often Taken Unlawfully by Corrupt Rulers
- Numbers 16:15 Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, “Do not regard their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them or mistreated a single one of them.”
- 1 Samuel 8:16 And he will take your menservants and maidservants and your best cattle and donkeys and put them to his own use.
- 1 Samuel 12:3 Here I am. Bear witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated or oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe and closed my eyes? Tell me, and I will …
Persons of Rank Rode On
- Judges 10:3–4 Tola was followed by Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years. …
- 2 Samuel 16:2 “Why do you have these?” asked the king. Ziba replied, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is to refresh those who become exhausted in the wilderness.”
Strong
- Genesis 49:14 Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.
Trusty Persons Appointed to Take Care of
- Genesis 36:24 These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. (This is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness as he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.)
- 1 Samuel 9:3 One day the donkeys of Saul’s father Kish wandered off, and Kish said to his son Saul, “Take one of the servants and go look for the donkeys.”
- 1 Chronicles 27:30 Obil the Ishmaelite was in charge of the camels. Jehdeiah the Meronothite was in charge of the donkeys.
Unclean
- Leviticus 11:2–3 “Say to the Israelites, ‘Of all the beasts of the earth, these ones you may eat: …
- Leviticus 11:26 Every animal with hooves not completely divided or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you. Whoever touches any of them will be unclean.
- Exodus 13:13 You must redeem every firstborn donkey with a lamb, and if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. And every firstborn of your sons you must redeem.
Urged on with a Staff
- Numbers 22:23 When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, she turned off the path and went into a field. So Balaam beat her to return her to the path.
- Numbers 22:27 When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam, and he became furious and beat her with his staff.
Women often Rode On
- Joshua 15:18 One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”
- 1 Samuel 25:20 As Abigail came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, she saw David and his men coming down toward her, and she met them.
Young, Most Valued for Labour
- 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 …
- Isaiah 30:24 The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
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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.