Topic
Fox, The
10 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Judges 15:4Torrey Abounded in Palestine
And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.
- Judges 15:4–6Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — Used by Samson for annoying the Philistines
And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails. And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up…
- Nehemiah 4:3Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Active
Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
- Psalms 63:10Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Carnivorous
They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
- Song of Songs 2:15Torrey Destructive to vines
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
- Lamentations 5:18Torrey Abounded in Palestine
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
- Ezekiel 13:4Torrey Found in deserts
O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
- Matthew 8:20Torrey Dwells in holes
And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
- Luke 9:58Torrey Dwells in holes
And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
- Luke 13:32Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Crafty
And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.
In the topical indexes
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 13 references, grouped by sub-topic
Texts: Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.