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Fishes

 

Fishes

Created by God - Ge 1:20,21; Ex 20:11

Made for God's glory - Job 12:8,9; Ps 69:34

INHABIT

• Seas
- Nu 11:22; Eze 47:10
• Rivers
- Ex 7:18; Eze 29:5
• Ponds
- So 7:4; Isa 19:10

Number and variety of - Ps 104:25

Different in flesh from beasts &c - 1Co 15:39

Cannot live without water - Isa 50:2

Man given dominion over - Ge 1:26,28; Ps 8:8

Man permitted to eat - Ge 9:2,3

USED AS FOOD

• By the Egyptians
- Nu 11:5
• By the Jews
- Mt 7:10

Mode of cooking alluded to - Lu 24:42; Joh 21:9

The people of Tyre traded in - Ne 13:16

Sold near the fish gate at Jerusalem - 2Ch 33:14; Zep 1:10

Distinction between clean and unclean - Le 11:9-12; De 14:9,10

MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE

• Leviathan
- Job 41:1; Ps 74:14
• Whale
- Ge 1:21; Mt 12:40

Solomon wrote the history of - 1Ki 4:33

No likeness of, to be made for worship - Ex 20:4; De 4:18

Catching of, a trade - Mt 4:18; Lu 5:2

TAKEN WITH

• Nets
- Lu 5:4-6; Joh 21:6-8
• Hooks
- Am 4:2; Mt 17:27
• Spears
- Job 41:7
• Often suffered for man's sin
- Ex 7:21; Eze 38:20

MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH

• Multiplying a few
- Mt 14:17-21; 15:34
• Immense draughts of
- Lu 5:6,9; Joh 21:6,11
• Procuring tribute money from
- Mt 17:27
• Dressed on the shore
- Joh 21:9

ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of the whole population of Egypt
- Eze 29:4,5
• Of the visible church
- Mt 13:48
• Of men ignorant of future events
- Ec 9:12
• Of those ensnared by the wicked
- Hab 1:14
• (Good,) of saints
- Mt 13:48,49
• (Bad,) of mere professors
- Mt 13:48,49
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