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 was sitting in it, just off the shore, while all the people were on the land close to the sea.
Then He saw two boats lying up on the shore of the lake, but the fishermen had left them and were washing their nets.
Now Herod cherished a bitter grudge against the people of Tyre and Sidon. So in a united body they came to meet him, and after winning the favor of Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their country depended for its food supply upon the king's country.
There the colonel found an Alexandrian ship bound for Italy, and put us on board her.
After considerable time had gone by, and navigation had become dangerous, and the fast was now over, Paul began to warn them
But it was not long before a violent wind, which is called a Northeaster, swept down from it.
As we passed under the lee of a small island called Cauda, with great difficulty we were able to secure the ship's boat. After hoisting it on board, they used ropes to brace the ship, and since they were afraid of being stranded on the Syrtis quicksands, they lowered the sail and let her drift.
After hoisting it on board, they used ropes to brace the ship, and since they were afraid of being stranded on the Syrtis quicksands, they lowered the sail and let her drift.
Since they were afraid of our going on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern, and kept wishing for daylight to come.
There were 276 of us on the ship. When they had eaten enough, they began to lighten the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.
So they cast off the anchors and left them in the sea; at the same time they undid the ropes of the rudders, and hoisting the foresail to the breeze they headed for the beach.
So they cast off the anchors and left them in the sea; at the same time they undid the ropes of the rudders, and hoisting the foresail to the breeze they headed for the beach.
Three months later, we set sail in an Alexandrian ship named The Twin Brothers, which had wintered at the island.
Three months later, we set sail in an Alexandrian ship named The Twin Brothers, which had wintered at the island.
Three months later, we set sail in an Alexandrian ship named The Twin Brothers, which had wintered at the island.
After weighing anchor and leaving there, we arrived at Rhegium. The next day, a south wind began to blow, and the following day we got to Puteoli.
three times I have been beaten by the Romans, once I was pelted with stones; three times I have been shipwrecked, and once I have spent a day and a night adrift at sea.
For every house is built by somebody, but the builder and furnisher of the universe is God.
This hope we have as an anchor for our souls, secure and safe, which reaches up behind the heavenly veil,