WATER
WATER
- One of the elements of the world # Ge 1:2
- GOD ORIGINALLY 2a) Created the firmament to divide
# Ge 1:6,7
2b) Collected into one place # Ge 1:9 2c) Created fowls and fishes, &c from # Ge 1:20,21 3) Necessary to vegetation # Ge 2:5,6 Job 14:9 Isa 1:30 4) Some plants particularly require # Job 8:11 5) Necessary to the comfort and happiness of man # Isa 41:17 Zec 9:11 6) COLLECTED IN 6a) Springs # Jos 15:19 6b) Pools # 1Ki 22:38 Ne 2:14 6c) Ponds # Ex 7:19 Isa 19:10 6d) Fountains # 1Ki 18:5 2Ch 32:3 6e) Wells # Ge 21:19 6f) Brooks # 2Sa 17:20 1Ki 18:5 6g) Streams # Ps 78:16 Isa 35:6 6h) Rivers # Isa 8:7 Jer 2:18 6i) The sea # Ge 1:9,10 Isa 11:9 6j) The clouds # Ge 1:7 Job 26:8,9 7) Rises in vapour to the clouds # Ec 1:7 Ps 104:8 8) Drops from the clouds in rain # De 11:11 2Sa 21:10 9) DESCRIBED AS 9a) Fluid # Ps 78:16 Pr 30:4 9b) Unstable # Ge 49:4 9c) Penetrating # Ps 109:18 9d) Reflecting images # Pr 27:9 9e) Wearing the hardest substances # Job 14:19 9f) Cleansing # Eze 36:25 Eph 5:26 9g) Refreshing # Job 22:7 Pr 25:25 10) Congealed by cold # Job 38:29 Ps 147:16,17 11) WAS USED BY JEWS 11a) As their principal beverage # Ge 24:43 1Ki 13:19,22 18:4 Ho 2:5 11b) For culinary purposes # Ex 12:9 11c) For washing the person # Ge 18:4 24:32 11d) For legal purification # Ex 29:4 Heb 9:10,19 12) Kept for purification in large waterpots # Joh 2:6 13) Carried in vessels # Ge 21:14 1Sa 26:11 Mr 14:13 14) Artificial mode of conveying, into large cities # 2Ki 20:20 15) Frequently brackish and unfit for use # Ex 15:23 2Ki 2:19 16) The want of, considered a great calamity # Ex 17:1-3 Nu 20:2 2Ki 3:9,10 Isa 3:1 17) In times of scarcity, sold at an enormous price # La 5:4 18) MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH 18a) Turned into blood # Ex 7:17,20 18b) Turned into wine # Joh 2:7-9 18c) Brought from the rock # Ex 17:6 Nu 20:11 18d) Brought from the jaw-bone of an ass # Jud 15:19 18e) Consumed by fire from heaven # 1Ki 18:38 18f) Divided and made to stand on heap # Ex 14:21,22 Jos 3:16 18g) Trenches filled with # 2Ki 3:17-22 18h) Iron made to swim in # 2Ki 6:5,6 18i) Our Lord, &c walking on # Mt 14:26-29 18j) Healing powers communicated to # 2Ki 5:14 Joh 5:4 9:7 19) The world and its inhabitants once destroyed by # Ge 7:20-23 2Pe 3:6 20) The world not to be again destroyed by # Ge 9:8-15 2Pe 3:7 21) ILLUSTRATIVE 21a) Of the support of God # Isa 8:6 21b) Of the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit # Isa 41:17,18 44:3 Eze 36:25 Joh 7:38,39 21c) Of persecutors # Ps 124:4,5 21d) Of persecutions # Ps 88:17 21e) Of hostile armies # Isa 8:7 17:13 21f) (Still,) of the ordinances of the gospel # Ps 23:2 21g) (Deep,) of severe affliction # Ps 66:12 69:1 Isa 30:20 43:2 21h) (Deep,) of counsel in the heart # Pr 20:5 21i) (Deep,) of the words of the wise of the wise # Pr 18:4 21j) (Poured out,) of the wrath of God # Ho 5:10 21k) (Poured out,) of faintness by terror # Ps 22:14 21l) (Pouring, out of buckets,) of a numerous progeny # Nu 24:7 21m) (Spilled on the ground,) of death # 2Sa 14:14 21n) (Its instability,) of a wavering disposition # Ge 49:4 21o) (Its weakness,) of faintness and cowardice # Jos 7:5 Eze 7:17 21p) (Difficulty of stopping,) of strife and contention # Pr 17:14 21q) (Rapidly flowing away,) of the career of the wicked # Job 24:18 Ps 58:7 21r) (Many,) of different nations and people # Re 17:1,15 Jer 51:13 21s) (Many,) of a variety of afflictions # 2Sa 22:17 21t) (Noise of many,) of the word of Christ # Re 1:15 21u) (Covering the sea,) of the general diffusion of the knowledge of God # Isa 11:9 Hab 2:14