Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

Exceeding

General references

Bible References

Fishers

Matthew 4:19
“Follow Me,” He told them, “and I will make you fish for people!”
Matthew 13:47
“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a large net thrown into the sea. It collected every kind of fish,
Mark 1:17
“Follow Me,” Jesus told them, “and I will make you fish for people!”
Luke 5:4
When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”
John 21:3
“I’m going fishing,” Simon Peter said to them.

“We’re coming with you,” they told him. They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.

En-gedi

2 Chronicles 20:2
People came and told Jehoshaphat, “A vast number from beyond the Dead Sea and from Edom has come to fight against you; they are already in Hazazon-tamar” (that is, En-gedi).

The great sea

Ezekiel 47:15
“This is to be the border of the land:

On the north side it will extend from the Mediterranean Sea by way of Hethlon and Lebo-hamath to Zedad,
Ezekiel 48:28
Next to the territory of Gad toward the south side, the border will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the Brook of Egypt, and out to the Mediterranean Sea.
Numbers 34:6
Your western border will be the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea; this will be your western border.
Joshua 23:4
See, I have allotted these remaining nations to you as an inheritance for your tribes, including all the nations I have destroyed, from the Jordan westward to the Mediterranean Sea.
Psalm 104:25
Here is the sea, vast and wide,
teeming with creatures beyond number—
living things both large and small.

Exceeding

Isaiah 49:12
See, these will come from far away,
from the north and from the west,
and from the land of Sinim.

General references

Numbers 34:6
Your western border will be the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea; this will be your western border.
Isaiah 19:8
Then the fishermen will mourn.
All those who cast hooks into the Nile will lament,
and those who spread nets on the water will shrivel up.

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