Reference: Nets
Hastings
NETS were used in taking wild animals (see Hunting), and birds (see Snares); but their main use has always been in fishing. The ancient Hebrews were not fishermen, nor do they seem to have eaten much fish. There is no reference in OT to fishing in the inland waters of Palestine. The fishermen and the implements named are either Egyptian or Ph
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Can thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?
Will the bands make traffic of him? Will they part him among the merchants? Can thou fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish-spears?
Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass over.
And the fishermen shall lament, and all those who cast a hook into the Nile shall mourn, and those who spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
And the fishermen shall lament, and all those who cast a hook into the Nile shall mourn, and those who spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
And the fishermen shall lament, and all those who cast a hook into the Nile shall mourn, and those who spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
Thy sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken it, says lord LORD. And she shall become a spoil to the nations,
Lord LORD has sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that they shall take you away with hooks, and your residue with fish-hooks.
He takes all of them up with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his drag. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.
He takes all of them up with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his drag. Therefore he rejoices and is glad. Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his drag, because by them his portion is fat, and his food plentiful.
And straightaway having left the nets, they followed him.
Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered from every kind,
That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved says to Peter, It is the Lord. So when Simon Peter heard that it is the Lord, he tied the coat around himself (for he was undressed), and threw himself into the sea.