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Rivers

Source of - Job 28:10; Ps 104:8,10

Enclosed within banks - Da 12:5

Flow through valleys - Ps 104:8,10

SOME OF

• Great and mighty
- Ge 15:18; Ps 74:15
• Deep
- Eze 47:5; Zec 10:11
• Broad
- Isa 33:21
• Rapid
- Jud 5:21
• Parted into many streams
- Ge 2:10; Isa 11:5

Run into the sea - Ec 1:7; Eze 47:8

God's power over, unlimited - Isa 50:2; Na 1:4

USEFUL FOR

• Supplying drink to the people
- Jer 2:18
• Commerce
- Isa 23:3
• Promoting vegetation
- Ge 2:10
• Bathing
- Ex 2:5

Baptism often performed in - Mt 3:6

Of Canaan abounded with fish - Le 11:9,10

BANKS OF

• Covered with flags
- Ex 2:3,5
• Planted with trees
- Eze 47:7
• Frequented by doves
- So 5:12
• Frequented by wild beasts
- Jer 49:19
• Places of common resort
- Ps 137:1
• Frequently overflowed
- Jos 3:15; 1Ch 12:15
• Peculiarly fruitful
- Ps 1:3; Isa 32:20

Gardens often made beside - Nu 24:6

Cities often built beside - Ps 46:4; 137:1

Often the boundaries of kingdoms - Jos 22:25; 1Ki 4:24

MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE

• Of Eden
- Ge 2:10
• Of Jotbath
- De 10:7
• Of Ethiopia
- Isa 18:1
• Of Babylon
- Ps 137:1
• Of Egypt
- Ge 15:18
• Of Damascus
- 2Ki 5:12
• Of Ahava
- Ezr 8:15
• Of Judah
- Joe 3:18
• Of Philippi
- Ac 16:13
• Abana
- 2Ki 5:12
• Arnon
- De 2:36; Jos 12:1
• Chebar
- Eze 1:1,3; 10:15,20
• Euphrates
- Ge 2:14
• Gihon
- Ge 2:13
• Gozan
- 2Ki 17:6; 1Ch 5:26
• Hiddekel
- Ge 2:14
• Jabbok
- De 2:37; Jos 12:2
• Jordan
- Jos 3:8; 2Ki 5:10
• Kanah
- Jos 16:8
• Kishon
- Jud 5:21
• Pharpar
- 2Ki 5:12
• Pison
- Ge 2:11
• Ulai
- Da 8:16

Many, fordable in some places - Ge 32:22; Jos 2:7; Isa 16:2

ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of the abundance of grace in Christ
- Isa 32:2; Joh 1:16
• Of the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit
- Ps 46:4; Isa 41:18; 43:19,20; Joh 7:38,39
• Of heavy afflictions
- Ps 69:2; Isa 43:2
• Of abundance
- Job 20:17; 29:6
• Of people flying from judgments
- Isa 23:10
• (Steady course of,) of peace of saints
- Isa 66:12
• (Fruitfulness of trees planted by,) of the permanent
prosperity of saints - Ps 1:3; Jer 17:8
• (Drying up of,) of God's judgments
- Isa 19:1-8; Jer 51:36; Na 1:4; Zec 10:11
• (Overflowing of,) of God's judgments
- Isa 8:7,8; 28:2,18; Jer 47:2
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