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 you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?
Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants? Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?
Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, while I pass by.
The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.
The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.
The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.
Your 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 the LORD, the rebuke of your God.
She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken it," says the Lord GOD; "and she shall become a spoil to the nations.
The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness that behold, "The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.
He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.
He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad. Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.
And they immediately left their nets and followed him.
"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,
That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It's the Lord." So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around him (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea.