Oxen
All the oxen for the burnt offering [were] twelve bullocks,
the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with
their meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sin
offering twelve....
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And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the
priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel,
rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the
passover offerings two thousand and six hundred [small
cattle], and three hundred oxen....
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And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he
offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an
hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the
children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD....
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And Ornan said unto David, Take [it] to thee, and let my lord
the king do [that which is] good in his eyes: lo, I give
[thee] the oxen [also] for burnt offerings, and the threshing
instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I
give it all....
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Exodus 20:24 - An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and
shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace
offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I
record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee....
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There was no animal in the rural economy of the Israelites,
or indeed in that of the ancient Orientals generally, that
was held in higher esteem than the ox and deservedly so, for
the ox was the animal upon whose patient labors depended all
the ordinary operations of farming. Oxen were used for
ploughing, De 22:10; 1Sa 14:14 etc.; for treading...
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Heb. bakar, "cattle;" "neat cattle", (Gen. 12:16; 34:28; Job
1:3, 14; 42:12, etc.); not to be muzzled when treading
the corn
(Deut. 25:4). Referred to by our Lord in his reproof
to the
Pharisees (Luke 13:15; 14:5)....
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mentioned only in Judg. 3:31, the weapon with which Shamgar
(q.v.) slew six hundred Philistines. "The ploughman
still
carries his goad, a weapon apparently more fitted for
the hand
of the soldier than the peaceful husbandman. The one I
saw was
of the 'oak of Bashan,' and measured upwards of ten
feet in
length. At one end was an iron spear,...
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(See BULL.) The law prohibiting the slaughter of clean beasts
in the wilderness, except before the tabernacle, at once kept
Israel from idolatry and tended to preserve their herds.
During the 40 years oxen and sheep were seldom killed for
food, from whence arose their lustings after flesh (Leviticus
17:1-6)....
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I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his
flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and
his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces
captains and rulers....
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