Partridge
CLEAN
Not among the forbidden birds of Deut 14:12-18; permitted under the general allowance of Deut 14:11
Would you eat it?
Mentioned in 2 verses (KJV)
Bird
Description
The partridge was a game bird, hunted by chasing it down across rocky, hilly terrain until it tired. David reached for that pursuit as a picture of his own situation — hunted relentlessly by King Saul across the very same kind of ground.
Key verses
“Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.”
1 Samuel 26:20
All 2 referencesshow
- 1 Samuel 26:20
- Jeremiah 17:11