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Water

One of the elements of the world - Ge 1:2

GOD ORIGINALLY

• Created the firmament to divide
- Ge 1:6,7
• Collected into one place
- Ge 1:9
• Created fowls and fishes, &c from
- Ge 1:20,21

Necessary to vegetation - Ge 2:5,6; Job 14:9; Isa 1:30

Some plants particularly require - Job 8:11

Necessary to the comfort and happiness of man - Isa 41:17; Zec 9:11

COLLECTED IN

• Springs
- Jos 15:19
• Pools
- 1Ki 22:38; Ne 2:14
• Ponds
- Ex 7:19; Isa 19:10
• Fountains
- 1Ki 18:5; 2Ch 32:3
• Wells
- Ge 21:19
• Brooks
- 2Sa 17:20; 1Ki 18:5
• Streams
- Ps 78:16; Isa 35:6
• Rivers
- Isa 8:7; Jer 2:18
• The sea
- Ge 1:9,10; Isa 11:9
• The clouds
- Ge 1:7; Job 26:8,9

Rises in vapour to the clouds - Ec 1:7; Ps 104:8

Drops from the clouds in rain - De 11:11; 2Sa 21:10

DESCRIBED AS

• Fluid
- Ps 78:16; Pr 30:4
• Unstable
- Ge 49:4
• Penetrating
- Ps 109:18
• Reflecting images
- Pr 27:9
• Wearing the hardest substances
- Job 14:19
• Cleansing
- Eze 36:25; Eph 5:26
• Refreshing
- Job 22:7; Pr 25:25

Congealed by cold - Job 38:29; Ps 147:16,17

WAS USED BY JEWS

• As their principal beverage
- Ge 24:43; 1Ki 13:19,22; 18:4; Ho 2:5
• For culinary purposes
- Ex 12:9
• For washing the person
- Ge 18:4; 24:32
• For legal purification
- Ex 29:4; Heb 9:10,19

Kept for purification in large waterpots - Joh 2:6

Carried in vessels - Ge 21:14; 1Sa 26:11; Mr 14:13

Artificial mode of conveying, into large cities - 2Ki 20:20

Frequently brackish and unfit for use - Ex 15:23; 2Ki 2:19

The want of, considered a great calamity - Ex 17:1-3; Nu 20:2; 2Ki 3:9,10; Isa 3:1

In times of scarcity, sold at an enormous price - La 5:4

MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH

• Turned into blood
- Ex 7:17,20
• Turned into wine
- Joh 2:7-9
• Brought from the rock
- Ex 17:6; Nu 20:11
• Brought from the jaw-bone of an ass
- Jud 15:19
• Consumed by fire from heaven
- 1Ki 18:38
• Divided and made to stand on heap
- Ex 14:21,22; Jos 3:16
• Trenches filled with
- 2Ki 3:17-22
• Iron made to swim in
- 2Ki 6:5,6
• Our Lord, &c walking on
- Mt 14:26-29
• Healing powers communicated to
- 2Ki 5:14; Joh 5:4; 9:7

The world and its inhabitants once destroyed by - Ge 7:20-23; 2Pe 3:6

The world not to be again destroyed by - Ge 9:8-15; 2Pe 3:7

ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of the support of God
- Isa 8:6
• Of the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit
- Isa 41:17,18; 44:3; Eze 36:25; Joh 7:38,39
• Of persecutors
- Ps 124:4,5
• Of persecutions
- Ps 88:17
• Of hostile armies
- Isa 8:7; 17:13
• (Still,) of the ordinances of the gospel
- Ps 23:2
• (Deep,) of severe affliction
- Ps 66:12; 69:1; Isa 30:20; 43:2
• (Deep,) of counsel in the heart
- Pr 20:5
• (Deep,) of the words of the wise
- Pr 18:4
• (Poured out,) of the wrath of God
- Ho 5:10
• (Poured out,) of faintness by terror
- Ps 22:14
• (Pouring, out of buckets,) of a numerous progeny
- Nu 24:7
• (Spilled on the ground,) of death
- 2Sa 14:14
• (Its instability,) of a wavering disposition
- Ge 49:4
• (Its weakness,) of faintness and cowardice
- Jos 7:5; Eze 7:17
• (Difficulty of stopping,) of strife and contention
- Pr 17:14
• (Rapidly flowing away,) of the career of the wicked
- Job 24:18; Ps 58:7
• (Many,) of different nations and people
- Re 17:1,15; Jer 51:13
• (Many,) of a variety of afflictions
- 2Sa 22:17
• (Noise of many,) of the word of Christ
- Re 1:15
• (Covering the sea,) of the general diffusion of the
knowledge of God - Isa 11:9; Hab 2:14
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