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E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 14:18

heron. Very doubtful; probably = parrot. lapwing = hoopoe (Revised Version) read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 14:19

creeping thing = swarming creature: i.e. rapidly multiplying. Compare Genesis 1:20 , Genesis 1:21 ; Genesis 7:21 ; Genesis 8:17 ; Genesis 9:7 . Exodus 8:3 .Leviticus 11:29 , &c. is. Hebrew "it [is]". they. A special reading, called Sevir, reads, "it". read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 14:1-21

Ver. 1-21. God, having chosen Israel for his own, separated them from the nations, adopted them as his children, and designed them for his glory, has a right to expect from them that they should answer these purposes of his grace, and approve themselves a holy people before him. And this must appear, 1. In their mournings, when all inordinate sorrow must be avoided; and every superstitious practice which the Gentiles used must be abhorred. Note; (1.) We are not forbidden to mourn for the dead;... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 14:13

Ver. 13. And the glede— The glede is a bird of the vulture kind, denominated in the Hebrew from its sharp sight: it is not specified in Leviticus. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 14:20

Ver. 20. But of all clean fowls— Rather, of all clean flying things: it is principally meant of the insect kind, locusts especially. See Leviticus 11:21-22. read more

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