13 “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,
But are her wings and pinions like the kindly stork’s?

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Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were two women, coming with the wind in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a (A)stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.

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“Even (A)the stork in the heavens
Knows her appointed times;
And the turtledove, the swift, and the swallow
Observe the time of their coming.
But (B)My people do not know the judgment of the Lord.

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17 Where the birds make their nests;
The stork has her home in the fir trees.

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29 (A)I am a brother of jackals,
And a companion of ostriches.

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21 For the king’s ships went to (A)Tarshish with the servants of [a]Hiram. Once every three years the [b]merchant ships came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and [c]monkeys.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 9:21 Heb. Huram; cf. 1 Kin. 10:22
  2. 2 Chronicles 9:21 Lit. ships of Tarshish, deep-sea vessels
  3. 2 Chronicles 9:21 Or peacocks

22 For the king had (A)merchant[a] ships at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the merchant (B)ships came bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and [b]monkeys.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 10:22 Lit. ships of Tarshish, deep-sea vessels
  2. 1 Kings 10:22 Or peacocks

19 the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.

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