Reference: Ships and Boats
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SHIPS AND BOATS
1. In OT and Apocrypha
(1) Among the Israelites.
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Then he began again to teach by the seashore. And a crowd gathered around him so great that he got into a boat and sat in it, a little way from the shore, while all the people were on the land close to the water.
and he saw two boats on the shore of the lake, for the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets.
Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they came before him in a body, and after winning over Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for a reconciliation, because their country depended upon the king's dominions for its food supply.
There the officer found an Alexandrian ship bound for Italy, and put us on board her.
As a great deal of time had now passed, and navigation had become dangerous, for the autumn fast was already over, Paul began to warn them.
But very soon a violent wind which they call a Northeaster rushed down from it.
As we passed under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we managed with great difficulty to secure the ship's boat. After hoisting it on board, they used ropes to brace the ship, and as they were afraid of being cast on the Syrtis banks, they lowered the sail, and let the ship drift.
After hoisting it on board, they used ropes to brace the ship, and as they were afraid of being cast on the Syrtis banks, they lowered the sail, and let the ship drift.
Then as they were afraid we might go on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and waited anxiously for daylight.
There were about seventy-six of us on board. When they had had enough to eat, they threw the wheat into the sea, in order to lighten the ship.
So they cast off the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time they undid the lashings of the steering oars, and hoisting the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.
So they cast off the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time they undid the lashings of the steering oars, and hoisting the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.
Three months later, we sailed on an Alexandrian ship named the Dioscuri, which had wintered at the island.
Three months later, we sailed on an Alexandrian ship named the Dioscuri, which had wintered at the island.
Three months later, we sailed on an Alexandrian ship named the Dioscuri, which had wintered at the island.
then we weighed anchor and reached Rhegium. A day later, a south wind sprang up and the following day we arrived at Puteoli.
I have been beaten three times by the Romans, I have been stoned once, I have been shipwrecked three times, a night and a day I have been adrift at sea;
For every house has a builder, and the builder of the universe is God.
This hope is like an anchor for our souls. It reaches up secure and strong into the sanctuary behind the heavenly curtain,