Bible verses about Water
(From Torrey's Topical Textbook)
- One of the elements of the world
Genesis 1:2- GOD ORIGINALLY
- Created the firmament to divide
Genesis 1:6,7
- Collected into one place
Genesis 1:9
- Created fowls and fishes, &c from
Genesis 1:20,21- Necessary to vegetation
Genesis 2:5,6; Job 14:9; Isaiah 1:30- Some plants particularly require
Job 8:11- Necessary to the comfort and happiness of man
Isaiah 41:17; Zechariah 9:11- COLLECTED IN
- Springs
Joshua 15:19
- Pools
I Kings 22:38; Nehemiah 2:14
- Ponds
Exodus 7:19; Isaiah 19:10
- Fountains
I Kings 18:5; II Chronicles 32:3
- Wells
Genesis 21:19
- Brooks
II Samuel 17:20; I Kings 18:5
- Streams
Psalms 78:16; Isaiah 35:6
- Rivers
Isaiah 8:7; Jeremiah 2:18
- The sea
Genesis 1:9,10; Isaiah 11:9
- The clouds
Genesis 1:7; Job 26:8,9- Rises in vapour to the clouds
Ecclesiastes 1:7; Psalms 104:8- Drops from the clouds in rain
Deuteronomy 11:11; II Samuel 21:10- DESCRIBED AS
- Fluid
Psalms 78:16; Proverbs 30:4
- Unstable
Genesis 49:4
- Penetrating
Psalms 109:18
- Reflecting images
Proverbs 27:9
- Wearing the hardest substances
Job 14:19
- Cleansing
Ezekiel 36:25; Ephesians 5:26
- Refreshing
Job 22:7; Proverbs 25:25- Congealed by cold
Job 38:29; Psalms 147:16,17- WAS USED BY JEWS
- As their principal beverage
Genesis 24:43; I Kings 13:19,22; 18:4; Hosea 2:5
- For culinary purposes
Exodus 12:9
- For washing the person
Genesis 18:4; 24:32
- For legal purification
Exodus 29:4; Hebrews 9:10,19- Kept for purification in large waterpots
John 2:6- Carried in vessels
Genesis 21:14; I Samuel 26:11; Mark 14:13- Artificial mode of conveying, into large cities
II Kings 20:20- Frequently brackish and unfit for use
Exodus 15:23; II Kings 2:19- The want of, considered a great calamity
Exodus 17:1-3; Numbers 20:2; II Kings 3:9,10; Isaiah 3:1- In times of scarcity, sold at an enormous price
Lamentations 5:4- MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH
- Turned into blood
Exodus 7:17,20
- Turned into wine
John 2:7-9
- Brought from the rock
Exodus 17:6; Numbers 20:11
- Brought from the jaw-bone of an ass
Judges 15:19
- Consumed by fire from heaven
I Kings 18:38
- Divided and made to stand on heap
Exodus 14:21,22; Joshua 3:16
- Trenches filled with
II Kings 3:17-22
- Iron made to swim in
II Kings 6:5,6
- Our Lord, &c walking on
Matthew 14:26-29
- Healing powers communicated to
II Kings 5:14; John 5:4; 9:7- The world and its inhabitants once destroyed by
Genesis 7:20-23; II Peter 3:6- The world not to be again destroyed by
Genesis 9:8-15; II Peter 3:7- ILLUSTRATIVE
- Of the support of God
Isaiah 8:6
- Of the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit
Isaiah 41:17,18; 44:3; Ezekiel 36:25; John 7:38,39
- Of persecutors
Psalms 124:4,5
- Of persecutions
Psalms 88:17
- Of hostile armies
Isaiah 8:7; 17:13
- (Still,) of the ordinances of the gospel
Psalms 23:2
- (Deep,) of severe affliction
Psalms 66:12; 69:1; Isaiah 30:20; 43:2
- (Deep,) of counsel in the heart
Proverbs 20:5
- (Deep,) of the words of the wise
Proverbs 18:4
- (Poured out,) of the wrath of God
Hosea 5:10
- (Poured out,) of faintness by terror
Psalms 22:14
- (Pouring, out of buckets,) of a numerous progeny
Numbers 24:7
- (Spilled on the ground,) of death
II Samuel 14:14
- (Its instability,) of a wavering disposition
Genesis 49:4
- (Its weakness,) of faintness and cowardice
Joshua 7:5; Ezekiel 7:17
- (Difficulty of stopping,) of strife and contention
Proverbs 17:14
- (Rapidly flowing away,) of the career of the wicked
Job 24:18; Psalms 58:7
- (Many,) of different nations and people
Revelation 17:1,15; Jeremiah 51:13
- (Many,) of a variety of afflictions
II Samuel 22:17
- (Noise of many,) of the word of Christ
Revelation 1:15
- (Covering the sea,) of the general diffusion of the knowledge of God
Isaiah 11:9; Habakkuk 2:14
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