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Fountains and Springs

 

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
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