Food

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

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Milk

• Genesis 49:12 His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk.
• Proverbs 27:27 You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed you— food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.

Butter

• Deuteronomy 32:14 with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.
• 2 Samuel 17:29 honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd for David and his people to eat. For they said, “The people have become hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.”

Cheese

• 1 Samuel 17:18 Take also these ten portions of cheese to the commander of their unit. Check on the welfare of your brothers and bring back an assurance from them.
• Job 10:10 Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?

Bread

• Genesis 18:5 And I will bring a bit of bread so that you may refresh yourselves. This is why you have passed your servant’s way. After that, you may continue on your way.” “Yes,” they replied, “you may do as you have said.”
• 1 Samuel 17:17 One day Jesse said to his son David, “Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.

Parched (roasted) corn (grain)

• Ruth 2:14 At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.
• 1 Samuel 17:17 One day Jesse said to his son David, “Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.

Meat

• 2 Samuel 6:19 Then he distributed to every man and woman among the multitude of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. And all the people departed, each to his own home.
• Proverbs 9:2 She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table.

Fish

• Matthew 7:10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
• Luke 24:42 So they gave Him a piece of broiled fish,

Herbs

• Proverbs 15:17 Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
• Romans 14:2 For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.
• Hebrews 6:7 For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.

Fruit

• 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.”

Dried fruit

• 1 Samuel 25:18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
• 1 Samuel 30:12 a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.

Honey So 5:1

• Isaiah 7:15 By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.

Oil

• Deuteronomy 12:17 Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.
• Proverbs 21:17 He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.
• Ezekiel 16:13 So you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was made of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You became very beautiful and rose to be queen.

Vinegar

• Numbers 6:3 he is to abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.
• Ruth 2:14 At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.

Wine

• 2 Samuel 6:19 Then he distributed to every man and woman among the multitude of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. And all the people departed, each to his own home.
• John 2:3 When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to Him, “They have no more wine.”
• John 2:10 and said, “Everyone serves the fine wine first, and then the cheap wine after the guests are drunk. But you have saved the fine wine until now!”

Prepared by females

• Genesis 27:9 Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father— the kind he loves.
• 1 Samuel 8:13 And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.
• Proverbs 31:15 She rises while it is still night to provide food for her household and portions for her maidservants.

Thanks given before receiving

• Mark 8:6 And He instructed the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then He took the seven loaves, gave thanks and broke them, and gave them to His disciples to set before the people. And they distributed them to the crowd.
• Acts 27:35 After he had said this, Paul took bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all. Then he broke it and began to eat.

A hymn sung afterward

• Matthew 26:30 And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Men and women did not partake together

• Genesis 18:8–9 Then Abraham brought curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and he set them before the men and stood by them under the tree as they ate. “Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked. “There, in the tent,” he replied.
• Esther 1:3 In the third year of his reign, Xerxes held a feast for all his officials and servants. The military leaders of Persia and Media were there, along with the nobles and princes of the provinces.
• Esther 1:9 Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.

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From God

• Genesis 1:29–30 Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food. And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth — everything that has the br…
• Genesis 9:3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
• Genesis 48:15 Then he blessed Joseph and said: “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
• Psalm 23:5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
• Psalm 103:5 who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
• Psalm 104:14–15 He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth: wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.
• Psalm 111:5 He provides food for those who fear Him; He remembers His covenant forever.
• Psalm 136:25 He gives food to every creature. His loving devotion endures forever.
• Psalm 145:15 The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.
• Psalm 147:9 He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.

Things Prohibited as Food

• Exodus 22:31 You are to be My holy people. You must not eat the meat of a mauled animal found in the field; you are to throw it to the dogs.’’
• Leviticus 11:1–47 The LORD spoke again to Moses and Aaron, telling them, “Say to the Israelites, ‘Of all the beasts of the earth, these ones you may eat: You may eat any animal that has a split hoof completely divided and that chews the cud. But of those that only chew the cud or only have a divided hoof, you are no…
• Leviticus 17:13–15 And if any Israelite or foreigner living among them hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten, he must drain its blood and cover it with dirt. For the life of all flesh is its blood. Therefore I have told the Israelites, ‘You must not eat the blood of any living thing, because the life of…