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Big-game hunting

Big-game hunting


‎Thes relief dating back to the time of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (669-about 630 BCE) shows a big-game hunt. Beaters compel the animals into the nets that are positioned at the edge of the forest. The game animals will get entangled in the net and cannot escape.
Josh 23:13; Job 18:9; Ps 9:15; 25:15; 35:7–8; Prov 7:22; Isa 51:20


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