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