What does the Bible say about chicken?

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• Matthew 23:37

  "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

• Matthew 26:34

  Jesus said to him, "Most assuredly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times."

• 1 Kings 4:23

  ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.

• Nehemiah 5:18

  Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this I didn't demand the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy on this people.

• Luke 22:34

  He said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me three times."

• Psalms 91:4

  He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

• Luke 13:34

  "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!

• Revelation 1:1

  This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,