Thematic Bible: Fountains and springs
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of God
For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters to hew them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
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O hope of Israel! LORD, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed; and those that depart from me shall be written in the dust because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
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For with thee is the fountain of life; in thy light shall we see light.
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of spiritual wisdom
The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
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Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that has it, but the instruction of fools is folly.
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Fountains and springs » Found in hills and valleys
For the LORD thy God brings thee into a good land, a land of brooks, of waters, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills,
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Thou art he who sends the springs into the valleys, which run among the mountains.
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Fountains and springs » Abound in canaan
And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go through the land to all the fountains of water and to all the brooks; peradventure we may find herbage to save the horses and mules alive that we not lose all the beasts.
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For the LORD thy God brings thee into a good land, a land of brooks, of waters, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills,
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » (corrupt,) of the natural heart
Does a fountain send forth at the same place both sweet and bitter water?
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But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart, and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of eternal life
And he said unto me, It is done. I AM the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is thirsty of the fountain of the water of life freely.
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but whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life.
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Fountains and springs » Mentioned in scripture » Upper and nether springs
And she answered, Give me a blessing, for thou hast given me a dry land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
And she said unto him, Give me a blessing, for thou hast given me a dry land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
Fountains and springs » Created by God
Thou art he who sends the springs into the valleys, which run among the mountains.
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Thou didst cleave the fountain and the river; thou didst dry up mighty rivers.
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of the means of grace
And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD and shall water the valley of Shittim.
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I will open rivers in high places and fountains in the midst of the plains; I will turn the wilderness into pools of water and the dry land into springs of water.
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Fountains and springs » Afford » Fruitfulness to the earth
And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go through the land to all the fountains of water and to all the brooks; peradventure we may find herbage to save the horses and mules alive that we not lose all the beasts.
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And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD and shall water the valley of Shittim.
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Fountains and springs » Come from the great deep
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
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Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked searching out the deep?
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » (sealed up,) of the church
A closed garden is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
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Fountains and springs » Sometimes stopped or turned off to distress enemies
he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were outside the city, and they helped him. So many people gathered together, and they stopped up all the fountains and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of a numerous posterity
Then Israel, the fountain of Jacob, shall dwell in safety alone in a land of grain and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.
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Fountains and springs » Mentioned in scripture » Of pisgah
and all the plain on this side of the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
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Fountains and springs » Constantly flowing » Could not be ceremonially defiled
Nevertheless a fountain or cistern where water is collected shall be clean; but that which touches their carcase shall be unclean.
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Fountains and springs » Drying up of, a severe punishment
He turned rivers into a wilderness and the watersprings into dry ground; the fruitful land into salt flats, because of the wickedness of those that dwell therein.
Fountains and springs » God to be praised for
saying with a loud voice, Fear God and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come; and worship him that has made the heaven and the earth and the sea and the fountains of waters.
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » (troubled,) of saints led astray
A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain and a corrupt spring.
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of the law of the wise
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of Godly fear
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of Christ
In that time there shall be an open fountain for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem against sin and against uncleanness.
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Fountains and springs » Mentioned in scripture » Of jezreel
Now the Philistines gathered together all their camps to Aphek, and the Israelites pitched camp by a fountain which is in Jezreel.
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of a good wife
Thy fountain shall be blessed; and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
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Fountains and springs » Mentioned in scripture » In the way to shur
And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
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Fountains and springs » Constantly flowing » Especially esteemed
And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » (always flowing,) of unceasing wickedness of the jews
As the waters never cease to flow from a fountain, so her wickedness never ceases to flow; injustice and robbery is heard in her; in my presence continually, sickness and wounds.
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » (not failing,) of the church
And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of the holy ghost
He that believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this he spoke concerning the Spirit, which those that believe on him should receive, for the Holy Spirit was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified.)
Fountains and springs » Afford » Refreshment to the birds
Next to them the fowls of the heavens have their habitation; they sing among the leaves.
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Fountains and springs » Afford » Drink to the beasts
They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild asses quench their thirst.
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Fountains and springs » Frequented by travellers
And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
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Fountains and springs » Sometimes dried up
And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
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Fountains and springs » Mentioned in scripture » Of the waters of nephtoah
and this border comes around from the top of the mountain unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah and goes out to the cities of Mount Ephron; and the border goes around to Baalah, which is Kirjathjearim.
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of constant supplies of grace
And singers and players on instruments in her shall say: all my springs are in thee.
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Fountains and springs » Send forth each but one kind of water
Does a fountain send forth at the same place both sweet and bitter water?
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Valleys » Abounded with » Fountains and springs
For the LORD thy God brings thee into a good land, a land of brooks, of waters, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills,
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I will open rivers in high places and fountains in the midst of the plains; I will turn the wilderness into pools of water and the dry land into springs of water.
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