Thematic Bible: Fountains and springs


Thematic Bible



For My people have committed a double evil:
They have abandoned Me,
the fountain of living water,
and dug cisterns for themselves,
cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.
Verse ConceptsAbandonmentForsaking GodBeing ForsakenFalse ConfidenceCisternsdrought, spiritualFountainsTwoDoubtSpring Of WaterThirstTrust, Lack OfWellsFountains Of LifeBreaking ContainersMetaphorical SpringsTwo Intangible ThingsWells, Figurative Use

Lord, the hope of Israel,
all who abandon You
will be put to shame.
All who turn away from Me
will be written in the dirt,
for they have abandoned
the Lord, the fountain of living water.
Verse ConceptsAbandonmentForsaking GodHope, As ConfidenceShameSpring Of WaterWellsMetaphorical SpringsJudgements WrittenConsequences Of Forsaking GodLiving WaterWells, Figurative Useisraeldust


The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters,
a flowing river, a fountain of wisdom.
Verse ConceptsFountainsProverbsThe Water Of LifeMetaphorical SpringsBenefits Of WisdomPowers Of SpeechBrooksThe Power Of Words


For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams of water, springs, and deep water sources, flowing in both valleys and hills; Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfBrooksland

He causes the springs to gush into the valleys;
they flow between the mountains.
Verse ConceptsWater IrrigationRivers And StreamsGod Providing Water

Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring of water and to every wadi. Perhaps we’ll find grass so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to destroy any cattle.” Verse ConceptsGrassMulesFeeding AnimalsKept Alive By Men

For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams of water, springs, and deep water sources, flowing in both valleys and hills; Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfBrooksland

Does a spring pour out sweet and bitter water from the same opening? Verse ConceptsBitter WaterBad WaterSweetnessBitterness

But what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and this defiles a man. For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.


But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again—ever! In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up within him for eternal life.” Verse Conceptseternal life, nature ofThe New NatureWellsHoly Spirit, Types OfThe Water Of LifeThe Holy Spirit Described As WaterNeverDrinking WaterMetaphorical SpringsPlenty Through ChristGod Giving His SpiritLiving WaterWater, As A Symbol Of LifeWells, Figurative UseEternal lifeEverlastingeternity

She replied, “Give me a blessing. Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me the springs of water also.” So he gave her the upper and lower springs.

She answered him, “Give me a blessing. Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me springs of water also.” So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.

He causes the springs to gush into the valleys;
they flow between the mountains.
Verse ConceptsWater IrrigationRivers And StreamsGod Providing Water

You opened up springs and streams;
You dried up ever-flowing rivers.
Verse ConceptsdrynessRivers And StreamsGod Providing WaterGod Drying Things Up

In that day
the mountains will drip with sweet wine,
and the hills will flow with milk.
All the streams of Judah will flow with water,
and a spring will issue from the Lord’s house,
watering the Valley of Acacias.
Verse ConceptsFountainsAlcoholdrinkingHillsMessianic AgeMilkProperty, HousesWineFountains Of LifePlenty Of WineMetaphorical SpringsBlessings From The MountainsFountains Used FigurativelyMillenial SacrificesBrooks

I will open rivers on the barren heights,
and springs in the middle of the plains.
I will turn the desert into a pool of water
and dry land into springs of water.
Verse ConceptsSpiritual RenewalBarren, LandPoolsRunning Water From GodRivers As Places Of PrayerRiversChristmas TreeChange And Growthlakes

Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring of water and to every wadi. Perhaps we’ll find grass so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to destroy any cattle.” Verse ConceptsGrassMulesFeeding AnimalsKept Alive By Men

In that day
the mountains will drip with sweet wine,
and the hills will flow with milk.
All the streams of Judah will flow with water,
and a spring will issue from the Lord’s house,
watering the Valley of Acacias.
Verse ConceptsFountainsAlcoholdrinkingHillsMessianic AgeMilkProperty, HousesWineFountains Of LifePlenty Of WineMetaphorical SpringsBlessings From The MountainsFountains Used FigurativelyMillenial SacrificesBrooks

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened, Verse ConceptsBefore The FloodGeologyThe DelugeCalendarsSudden DestructionMonth 2The Act Of OpeningOpening HeavenWindows Of HeavenThe Sea Stirred UpFloods

Have you traveled to the sources of the sea
or walked in the depths of the oceans?
Verse ConceptsSeaDeep SeasThe OceanDespairThe Seaexploringventing

My sister, my bride, you are a locked garden—
a locked garden and a sealed spring.
Verse ConceptsNames And Titles For The ChurchShutting SecurelyLocks And BarsRomance

so he consulted with his officials and his warriors about stopping up the waters of the springs that were outside the city, and they helped him. Many people gathered and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land; they said, "Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?"

So Israel dwells securely;
Jacob lives untroubled
in a land of grain and new wine;
even his skies drip with dew.
Verse ConceptsdrinkingGrainWine

and all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Dead Sea below the slopes of Pisgah. Verse ConceptsDead SeaBeyond Jordan

A spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but someone who touches a carcass in it will become unclean. Verse ConceptsTouching Unclean Things

He turns rivers into desert, springs of water into thirsty ground, and fruitful land into salty wasteland, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.


A righteous person who yields to the wicked
is like a muddied spring or a polluted well.
Verse Conceptsdouble mindednessFountainsProverbsSpring Of Waterpressure




The Philistines brought all their military units together at Aphek while Israel was camped by the spring in Jezreel.


The Angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur. Verse ConceptsAngel of the LordRivers And StreamsRoadsWellsFinding PeopleTemporary Stay In The WildernessJesus Role In Salvationgabrielmistress


As a well gushes out its water,
so she pours out her evil.
Violence and destruction resound in her.
Sickness and wounds keep coming to My attention.
Verse ConceptsViolence In The EarthFountainsWellsContinuing In SinFreshWells, Figurative Use


The one who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him." He said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been received, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

The birds of the sky live beside the springs;
they sing among the foliage.
Verse ConceptsBirds

They supply water for every wild beast;
the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
Verse ConceptsQuenchingAnimals, God's Care OfDrinking WaterWild Donkeys

The Angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur. Verse ConceptsAngel of the LordRivers And StreamsRoadsWellsFinding PeopleTemporary Stay In The WildernessJesus Role In Salvationgabrielmistress


From the top of the hill the border curved to the spring of the Waters of Nephtoah, went to the cities of Mount Ephron, and then curved to Baalah (that is, Kiriath-jearim).

Singers and dancers alike will say,
“My whole source of joy is in you.”
Verse ConceptsFountainsMusicFountains Of LifeMetaphorical SpringsSingersFountains Used Figurativelyinstruments

Does a spring pour out sweet and bitter water from the same opening? Verse ConceptsBitter WaterBad WaterSweetnessBitterness

For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams of water, springs, and deep water sources, flowing in both valleys and hills; Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfBrooksland

I will open rivers on the barren heights,
and springs in the middle of the plains.
I will turn the desert into a pool of water
and dry land into springs of water.
Verse ConceptsSpiritual RenewalBarren, LandPoolsRunning Water From GodRivers As Places Of PrayerRiversChristmas TreeChange And Growthlakes

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