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Fountains and Springs
Created by God - Ps 74:15; 104:10
God to be praised for - Re 14:7
Come from the great deep - Ge 7:11; Job 38:16
Found in hills and valleys - De 8:7; Ps 104:10
Send forth each but one kind of water - Jas 3:11
AFFORD
- Drink to the beasts- Ps 104:11
- Refreshment to the birds- Ps 104:12
- Fruitfulness to the earth- 1Ki 18:5; Joe 3:18
Frequented by travellers - Ge 16:7
Abound in Canaan - De 8:7; 1Ki 18:5
Sometimes dried up - Isa 58:11
Drying up of, a severe punishment - Ps 107:33,34; Ho 13:15
CONSTANTLY FLOWING
- Especially esteemed- Isa 58:11
- Could not be ceremonially defiled- Le 11:36
Sometimes stopped or turned off to distress enemies - 2Ch 32:3,4
MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE
- In the way to Shur- Ge 16:7
- Of the waters of Nephtoah- Jos 15:9
- Of Jezreel- 1Sa 29:1
- Of Pisgah- De 4:49
- Upper and nether springs- Jos 15:19; Jud 1:15
ILLUSTRATIVE
- Of God- Ps 36:9; Jer 2:13; 17:13
- Of Christ- Zec 13:1
- Of the Holy Spirit- Joh 7:38,39
- Of constant supplies of grace- Ps 87:7
- Of eternal life- Joh 4:14; Re 21:6
- Of the means of grace- Isa 41:18; Joe 3:18
- Of a good wife- Pr 5:18
- Of a numerous posterity- De 33:28
- Of spiritual wisdom- Pr 16:22; 18:4
- Of the law of the wise- Pr 13:14
- Of godly fear- Pr 14:27
- (Sealed up,) of the church- So 4:12
- (Not failing,) of the church- Isa 58:11
- (Always flowing,) of unceasing wickedness of the Jews- Jer 6:7
- (Corrupt,) of the natural heart- Jas 3:11; Mt 15:18,19
- (Troubled,) of saints led astray- Pr 25:26 Next Topic (Fox, The)