God and Chickens...

I know, I know.  It has been nearly a year since I have blogged.  I'm sorry.  I am going to start up again and hopefully slowly catch everyone up.  But for now, I just wondered something and I'll share with you my results!

Are you aware of how many times chickens are referenced in the Bible?   I was wondering this, so I did a little study yesterday.  Not that God doesn't love all of His creation, but He certainly gives our feathered critters a lot of attention/reference in The Scriptures!

Here are all of the references to "Rooster" in the bible:

• Proverbs 30:31 the strutting rooster, the he-goat, and a king whose army is with him.

• Matthew 26:34  Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”

• Matthew 26:74  Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know the man.” And immediately the rooster crowed.

• Matthew 26:75And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.

• Mark 13:35  Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning—

• Mark 14:30  And Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”

• Mark 14:68  But he denied it, saying, “I neither know nor understand what you mean.” And he went out into the gateway and the rooster crowed.

• Mark 14:72  And immediately the rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” And he broke down and wept.

• Luke 22:34  Jesus said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow this day, until you deny three times that you know me.”

• Luke 22:60  But Peter said, “Man, I do not know what you are talking about.” And immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed.

• Luke 22:61  And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the saying of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.”

• John 13:38  Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times.

• John 18:27  Peter again denied it, and at once a rooster crowed.

Here are all the references to "Hen" In the bible:

• Matthew 23:37  [ Lament over Jerusalem ] “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!

• Luke 13:34  O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!

And finally, here are all the references of "Fowl" in the bible:

• Leviticus 7:26  Moreover, you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places.

• 1 Kings 4:23  ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.

That equates to 17 references in 7 books of the bible.

Now doesn't that just make you smile?  

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Kelly