Reference: Ships and Boats
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SHIPS AND BOATS
1. In OT and Apocrypha
(1) Among the Israelites.
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I have waited for thy saving health, O LORD.
They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness; therefore they shall suck the abundance of the seas and hidden treasures of the sand.
Gilead remained on the other side of the Jordan, and why did Dan remain next to the ships? Asher continued on the sea shore and remained in his breaches.
My slaves shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea, and I will convey them by sea in rafts unto the place that thou shalt appoint me and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them; and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household and twenty thousand measures of pure oil; this gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his slaves, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the slaves of Solomon. read more. And they went to Ophir and brought gold from there, four hundred and twenty talents and brought it to king Solomon.
For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram; once every three years the navy of Tarshish came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt and linen yarn, for the king's merchants bought the horses and yarn. And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for one hundred and fifty, and so by their hand they supplied all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria.
And he walked in all the ways of Asa, his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD. Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away, for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
Then Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, said unto Jehoshaphat, Let my slaves go with thy slaves in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
They are passed away as the ships of Ebeh as the eagle that throws himself on the prey.
So is this great and wide sea, wherein are innumerable creeping things, both small and great beasts.
Those that go down to the sea in ships that do work in many waters, these have seen the works of the LORD and his wonders in the deep. read more. For he commands and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves. They mount up to the heavens; they go down again to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man, and all of their knowledge is of no avail.
He who sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to the people scattered and peeled, to the people full of fears from their beginning, and until now, a people tired of waiting and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would tread them down, I would burn them together. Or who shall take hold of my strength? Make peace with me, yea, make peace with me. read more. Days shall come when Jacob shall take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and the face of the world shall be filled with fruit. Has he been smitten as he who smote him? or has he been slain as those who slew him? In measure, she shall be chastised in her stalks: he stays his rough wind in the day of the east wind. Therefore, in this manner shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this shall be all the fruit, the removal of his sin; when he shall return all the stones of the altar, as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder that they may not raise up the groves, or the images of the sun. Otherwise the defenced city shall be made desolate, and the habitation shall be forsaken and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down and consume the branches thereof. When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: women shall come and set them on fire: for this is not a people of understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favour.
For the LORD shall surely be strong unto us there, a place of broad rivers and wide streams in which no galley with oars shall go, neither shall any great ship pass thereby.
For the LORD shall surely be strong unto us there, a place of broad rivers and wide streams in which no galley with oars shall go, neither shall any great ship pass thereby.
Thy tacklings are loosed; they did not strengthen well their mast, nor could they spread the sail: : then the prey of a great spoil shall be divided; even the lame shall take prey.
Thy tacklings are loosed; they did not strengthen well their mast, nor could they spread the sail: : then the prey of a great spoil shall be divided; even the lame shall take prey.
Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon and caused fugitives to descend unto all of them and the clamour of Chaldeans in the ships.
Of fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was thy curtain, that it might serve to be thy sail; ; of blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was thy pavilion.
For the ships of Chittim shall come against him; therefore he shall be grieved and return and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return and have an understanding with those that have forsaken the holy covenant.
And he began again to teach by the sea side, and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship and sat in the sea, and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.
and saw two ships that were by the shore of the lake, but the fishermen were gone out of them and were washing their nets.
And Herod was highly displeased with those of Tyre and Sidon, but they came with one accord to him, and, having bribed Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for peace because their lands were supplied through those of the king's.
And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy, and he put us in it.
Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them,
But not long after, there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.
And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat, Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into Syrtis, , struck sail and so were driven.
Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into Syrtis, , struck sail and so were driven.
Then fearing lest we should fall upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern and wished for the day.
And we were in all, in the ship, two hundred and seventy-six souls. And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship and cast out the grain into the sea.
And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea and loosed the rudder bands and hoisted up the mainsail to the wind and made toward shore.
And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea and loosed the rudder bands and hoisted up the mainsail to the wind and made toward shore.
And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose ensign was Castor and Pollux.
And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose ensign was Castor and Pollux.
And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose ensign was Castor and Pollux.
And having gone around, we came to Rhegium, and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli,
Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned; three times I suffered shipwreck, night and day I have been in the deep;
For every house is built by someone, but he that created all things is God.
which we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters even into that which is within the veil,