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Nest
        

Hebrew ken. The Kenite is represented as "putting his 'nest' (ken, playing on the name) in a rock" (Numbers 24:21-22). frontKENITE.) So Edom, Obadiah 1:3-4; "thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock ... though thou set thy nest among the stars" (in thy ambitious pride regarding thy lofty dwelling as raised beyond the reach of injury; type of antichrist: Isaiah 14:13; Daniel 8:10; Daniel 11:37), i.e. Petra, in the wady Musa, Edom's capital cut in the rocks. So Moab (Jeremiah 48:28), "like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth," i.e. the blue rock dove which tenants the clefts and caves on the wall-like eastern sides of the Dead Sea, also on the western sides; abundant at Mar Saba, where the monks are employed in feeding them.
        So the bride in the clefts of Christ, the smitten Rock (Song of Solomon 2:14; Psalm 27:5; Isaiah 33:16). Contrast the clefts in which the proud sinner like Edom hides (Jeremiah 49:16). The compartments in Noah's ark are literally "nests" or berths (Genesis 6:14). frontBIRD on Psalm 84:3.) In Isaiah 10:14 Assyria boasts, "my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people," implying the ease with which he pillaged the most precious treasures, not his own, as a boy robbing a helpless bard's nest; "none moved the wing or peeped (chirped)" as a parent bird does when its young are stolen; none dare resist me even with a word


Bibliography Information
Fausset, Andrew Robert M.A., D.D., "Definition for 'Nest' Fausset's Bible Dictionary".
bible-history.com - Fausset's; 1878.

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