Thematic Bible: Banks of


Thematic Bible



These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks and they put to flight all those in the valleys, both to the east and to the west. Verse ConceptseastMonth 1Peoples Who Fled

and when those who carried the ark came into the Jordan, and the feet of the priests carrying the ark were dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the days of harvest), Verse ConceptsHarvestWalking Through WaterSwellingFeet In Action

How blessed will you be, you who sow beside all waters,
Who let out freely the ox and the donkey.
Verse ConceptsCowsPlanting SeedsSpilling Your Seed On The Ground


But when she could hide him no longer, she got him a wicker basket and covered it over with tar and pitch. Then she put the child into it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile. Verse ConceptsMaternal LoveCoatsBoatsBitumen and tarLove, And The WorldMineralsPapyrusPlantsUnable To Do Other ThingsRivers

The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the Nile, with her maidens walking alongside the Nile; and she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid, and she brought it to her. Verse ConceptsBathing, For RefreshmentRiver BanksPeople Sending People

“His eyes are like doves
Beside streams of water,
Bathed in milk,
And reposed in their setting.

Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan against a perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will make him run away from it, and whoever is chosen I shall appoint over it. For who is like Me, and who will summon Me into court? And who then is the shepherd who can stand against Me?” Verse ConceptsChallengesShepherds, As Kings And LeadersInadequate ShepherdingGod Like A LionWho Is Like God?The Region Of JordanLeadership Qualities

Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river there were very many trees on the one side and on the other. Verse ConceptsMetaphorical TreesTwo Sidedrelaxing