Thematic Bible: Banks of


Thematic Bible



These [were] they who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it was filled over its banks. And they put to flight all [who were in] the valley to the east and to the west. Verse ConceptseastMonth 1Peoples Who Fled

When those carrying the ark came up to the Jordan, and the priests carrying the ark dipped their feet in the edge of the water (the Jordan was flowing over its banks during all the days of harvest), Verse ConceptsHarvestWalking Through WaterSwellingFeet In Action

Happy [are] you who sow by all waters, who let the foot of the ox and the donkey go free. Verse ConceptsCowsPlanting SeedsSpilling Your Seed On The Ground


But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him, and she coated it with tar and with pitch, and she placed the boy in it, and she placed [it] among the reeds on the bank of the Nile. Verse ConceptsMaternal LoveCoatsBoatsBitumen and tarLove, And The WorldMineralsPapyrusPlantsUnable To Do Other ThingsRivers

And the daughter of Pharaoh went down to wash at the Nile, [while] her maidservants were walking alongside the Nile, and she saw the basket in the midst of the reeds, and she sent her slave woman [for it] and took it Verse ConceptsBathing, For RefreshmentRiver BanksPeople Sending People

His eyes [are] like doves beside springs of water, bathed in milk, {set like mounted jewels}.

Look, like a lion he comes up from the thickets of the Jordan to {a pastureland by a constantly flowing stream}. So {I will chase him away hurriedly} from it. And whoever [is] chosen I will appoint over it. For who [is] like me, and who can summon me? And who [is] this, [the] shepherd who can stand {before me}?" Verse ConceptsChallengesShepherds, As Kings And LeadersInadequate ShepherdingGod Like A LionWho Is Like God?The Region Of JordanLeadership Qualities

{When I returned}, then look! On the bank of the river [were] many trees {on both sides}. Verse ConceptsMetaphorical TreesTwo Sidedrelaxing