Raven

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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index.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.

A black carnivorous bird

• Proverbs 30:17 As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
• Proverbs 5:11 At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,

Forbidden as food

• Leviticus 11:15 any kind of raven,
• Deuteronomy 14:14 any kind of raven,

Preserved by Noah in the ark

• Genesis 8:7 and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.

Fed Elijah

• 1 Kings 17:4–6 And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.” So Elijah did what the LORD had told him, and he went and lived by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan. The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the bro…

Cared for by divine providence

• Luke 12:24 Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!