Water
Water
One of the elements of the world - Ge 1:2
GOD ORIGINALLY
- Created the firmament to divide
- Ge 1:6,7 - Collected into one place
- Ge 1:9 - Created fowls and fishes, &c from
- Ge 1:20,21
Necessary to vegetation - Ge 2:5,6; Job 14:9; Isa 1:30
Some plants particularly require - Job 8:11
Necessary to the comfort and happiness of man - Isa 41:17; Zec 9:11
COLLECTED IN
Rises in vapour to the clouds - Ec 1:7; Ps 104:8
Drops from the clouds in rain - De 11:11; 2Sa 21:10
DESCRIBED AS
Congealed by cold - Job 38:29; Ps 147:16,17
WAS USED BY JEWS
Kept for purification in large waterpots - Joh 2:6
Carried in vessels - Ge 21:14; 1Sa 26:11; Mr 14:13
Artificial mode of conveying, into large cities - 2Ki 20:20
Frequently brackish and unfit for use - Ex 15:23; 2Ki 2:19
The want of, considered a great calamity - Ex 17:1-3; Nu 20:2; 2Ki 3:9,10; Isa 3:1
In times of scarcity, sold at an enormous price - La 5:4
MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH
- Turned into blood
- Ex 7:17,20 - Turned into wine
- Joh 2:7-9 - Brought from the rock
- Ex 17:6; Nu 20:11 - Brought from the jaw-bone of an ass
- Jud 15:19 - Consumed by fire from heaven
- 1Ki 18:38 - Divided and made to stand on heap
- Ex 14:21,22; Jos 3:16 - Trenches filled with
- 2Ki 3:17-22 - Iron made to swim in
- 2Ki 6:5,6 - Our Lord, &c walking on
- Mt 14:26-29 - Healing powers communicated to
- 2Ki 5:14; Joh 5:4; 9:7
The world and its inhabitants once destroyed by - Ge 7:20-23; 2Pe 3:6
The world not to be again destroyed by - Ge 9:8-15; 2Pe 3:7
ILLUSTRATIVE
- Of the support of God
- Isa 8:6 - Of the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit
- Isa 41:17,18; 44:3; Eze 36:25; Joh 7:38,39 - Of persecutors
- Ps 124:4,5 - Of persecutions
- Ps 88:17 - Of hostile armies
- Isa 8:7; 17:13 - (Still,) of the ordinances of the gospel
- Ps 23:2 - (Deep,) of severe affliction
- Ps 66:12; 69:1; Isa 30:20; 43:2 - (Deep,) of counsel in the heart
- Pr 20:5 - (Deep,) of the words of the wise
- Pr 18:4 - (Poured out,) of the wrath of God
- Ho 5:10 - (Poured out,) of faintness by terror
- Ps 22:14 - (Pouring, out of buckets,) of a numerous progeny
- Nu 24:7 - (Spilled on the ground,) of death
- 2Sa 14:14 - (Its instability,) of a wavering disposition
- Ge 49:4 - (Its weakness,) of faintness and cowardice
- Jos 7:5; Eze 7:17 - (Difficulty of stopping,) of strife and contention
- Pr 17:14 - (Rapidly flowing away,) of the career of the wicked
- Job 24:18; Ps 58:7 - (Many,) of different nations and people
- Re 17:1,15; Jer 51:13 - (Many,) of a variety of afflictions
- 2Sa 22:17 - (Noise of many,) of the word of Christ
- Re 1:15 - (Covering the sea,) of the general diffusion of the
knowledge of God - Isa 11:9; Hab 2:14 Next Topic (Wave-offering)