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Psalm 50:10
For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
8I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
9I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.
10For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
11I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.
12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
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The livestock on a thousand hills belong to God before anyone offers a sacrifice, challenging the thought that human gifts supply something he lacks.
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Jeremiah 27:5–6‘I have made the earth, the men, and the animals that are on the surface of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm. I give it to whom it seems …Both passages describe God's authority over the earth's animals: he claims them as his own and gives what he has made.
Psalm 104:14He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:Livestock belong to God in this psalm, and in Psalm 104 their food grows through his provision.
Psalm 8:6–8You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:Both passages place earthly possessions and human rule under God's authority over what belongs to him.
Psalm 104:24–25LORD, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.The animals God claims here belong within the earth full of his riches described in Psalm 104.
Daniel 2:38Wherever the children of men dwell, he has given the animals of the field and the birds of the sky into your hand, and has made you rule over them all. You are …Both passages affirm God's authority over animals, including those he places under a human ruler's hand.
Genesis 31:9Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.Livestock are God's possession in the psalm, while Genesis describes God transferring livestock from one person's possession to another.
Genesis 14:19He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.God's claim over forest animals and livestock shares the language of ownership with his title as possessor of heaven and earth.
Joshua 8:27Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to the LORD’s word which he commanded Joshua.The shared thread is livestock under God's authority, though Joshua concerns war spoils and the psalm concerns God's ownership.
Jonah 4:11Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand …Animals matter in both passages: God claims them as his own here and includes them in his concern for Nineveh.
Genesis 2:19Out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. …Animals stand in relation to God in both texts: he forms them in Genesis and declares them his own in the psalm.
Genesis 1:24–25God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so.Both passages name livestock and other animals, describing their existence at God's command and their belonging to him.
1 Chronicles 29:14–16But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and we have given you of your own.Both passages ground offerings in God's prior ownership: whatever people give him is his own.
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Your worship does not keep God supplied. The animals you could offer already belong to him, and his ownership reaches beyond every stall and fence.
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