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Identifier: dictionaryofbibl01scha (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of the Bible..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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fering; but ifshe were too poor to afford a lamb, shemight bring two turtle-doves, or twoyoung pigeons. Lev. 12 : 6-8. Thus wemay judge of the poverty of Mary, themother of Jesus, when upon his birthshe brought to the temple at Jerusalemthe two birds instead of a lamb. Luko237 DOV r>ov 2 : 24. It was to supply applicantswith animals for sacrifice that certainpersons sat in the temple with doves tosell, whom our Lord forced to leave itbecause the house of prayer was nota fit place for buying and selling. MarkU: 15; John 2:14-16. David, Ps. 68 : 13, refers to a kindof dove found at Damascus, whosefeathers, all except the wings, are lit- erally as yellow as gold; they are verysmall and kept in cages. I have oftenhad them in my house, but their note isso very sad that I could not endure it.— Thomson. In all Eastern towns homes are pro-vided for the pigeons ; sometimes spe-cial towers are erected for them ; some-times the upper stories of the housesare fitted with openings or windows,
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Turtle Dove. (After Houghton.) and are sacred to their use. The im-mense compact masses of these birds asthey are seen flying to their houses orplaces of resort can never be forgottenby Eastern travellers. They sometimesresemble a distant cloud, and are sodense as to obscure the rays of thesun. Hence the allusion in Isa. 60 : 8.Tristram says that the pigeon tribeabound in Palestine to a degree un-known in other countries. The great238 abundance of plants of the clover andvetch family accounts for their num-bers. Eock-doves, in myriads beyondcomputation, inhabit the caves and fis-sures which honeycomb the limestonecliffs of Palestine. The wild rock-pig-eon (Colitmba livin), the ancestor ofthe domestic races, is found here, aswell as other species. See Turtle-dove. Doves Dung. There are two views DOW DEI Concerning the material to which thereis reference in 2 Kgs. 6 : 25. Some sup-pose that this substance was in greatdemand as a quick manure for thosevegetables which might be soonestrai

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