Water

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 1 Kings 22:38; Nehemiah 2:14
- Ponds Exodus 7:19; Isaiah 19:10
- Fountains 1 Kings 18:5; 2 Chronicles 32:3
- Wells Genesis 21:19
- Brooks 2 Samuel 17:20; 1 Kings 18:5
- Streams Psalm 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; Psalm 104:8
Drops from the clouds in rain Deuteronomy 11:11; 2 Samuel 21:10
DESCRIBED AS
- Fluid Psalm 78:16; Proverbs 30:4
- Unstable Genesis 49:4
- Penetrating Psalm 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; Psalm 147:16,17
WAS USED BY JEWS
- As their principal beverage Genesis 24:43; 1 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; 1 Samuel 26:11; Mark 14:13
Artificial mode of conveying, into large cities 2 Kings 20:20
Frequently brackish and unfit for use Exodus 15:23; 2 Kings 2:19
The want of, considered a great calamity Exodus 17:1-3; Numbers 20:2; 2 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 1 Kings 18:38
- Divided and made to stand on heap Exodus 14:21,22; Joshua 3:16
- Trenches filled with 2 Kings 3:17-22
- Iron made to swim in 2 Kings 6:5,6
- Our Lord, &c walking on Matthew 14:26-29
- Healing powers communicated to 2 Kings 5:14; John 5:4; 9:7
The world and its inhabitants once destroyed by Genesis 7:20-23; 2 Peter 3:6
The world not to be again destroyed by Genesis 9:8-15; 2 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 Psalm 124:4,5
- Of persecutions Psalm 88:17
- Of hostile armies Isaiah 8:7; 17:13
- (Still,) of the ordinances of the gospel Psalm 23:2
- (Deep,) of severe affliction Psalm 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 Psalm 22:14
- (Pouring, out of buckets,) of a numerous progeny Numbers 24:7
- (Spilled on the ground,) of death 2 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; Psalm 58:7
- (Many,) of different nations and people Revelation 17:1,15; Jeremiah 51:13
- (Many,) of a variety of afflictions 2 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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