Thematic Bible: Banks of


Thematic Bible



These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west. Verse ConceptseastMonth 1Peoples Who Fled

and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest), Verse ConceptsHarvestWalking Through WaterSwellingFeet In Action

Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey. Verse ConceptsCowsPlanting SeedsSpilling Your Seed On The Ground


When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank. Verse ConceptsMaternal LoveCoatsBoatsBitumen and tarLove, And The WorldMineralsPapyrusPlantsUnable To Do Other ThingsRivers

Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it. Verse ConceptsBathing, For RefreshmentRiver BanksPeople Sending People

His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, washed with milk, mounted like jewels.

Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who will stand before 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 were very many trees on the one side and on the other. Verse ConceptsMetaphorical TreesTwo Sidedrelaxing