Thematic Bible: Fountains and springs
Thematic Bible
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of God
"Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: they have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water."
You are the one in whom Israel may find hope. All who leave you will suffer shame. Those who turn away from you will be consigned to the nether world. For they have rejected you, the Lord, the fountain of life.
For you are the one who gives and sustains life.
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of spiritual wisdom
The words of a person's mouth are like deep waters, and the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.
Insight is like a life-giving fountain to the one who possesses it, but folly leads to the discipline of fools.
Fountains and springs » Found in hills and valleys
For the Lord your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills,
Fountains and springs » Abound in canaan
Ahab told Obadiah, "Go through the land to all the springs and valleys. Maybe we can find some grazing areas so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to kill some of the animals."
For the Lord your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills,
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » (corrupt,) of the natural heart
A spring does not pour out fresh water and bitter water from the same opening, does it?
But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a person. For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of eternal life
He also said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the one who is thirsty I will give water free of charge from the spring of the water of life.
But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life."
Fountains and springs » Mentioned in scripture » Upper and nether springs
She answered, "Please give me a special present. Since you have given me land in the Negev, now give me springs of water. So he gave her both upper and lower springs.
She answered, "Please give me a special present. Since you have given me land in the Negev, now give me springs of water." So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.
Fountains and springs » Created by God
You broke open the spring and the stream; you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of the means of grace
On that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the dry stream beds of Judah will flow with water. A spring will flow out from the temple of the Lord, watering the Valley of Acacia Trees.
I will make streams flow down the slopes and produce springs in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water and the arid land into springs.
Fountains and springs » Afford » Fruitfulness to the earth
Ahab told Obadiah, "Go through the land to all the springs and valleys. Maybe we can find some grazing areas so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to kill some of the animals."
On that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the dry stream beds of Judah will flow with water. A spring will flow out from the temple of the Lord, watering the Valley of Acacia Trees.
Fountains and springs » Come from the great deep
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 fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » (sealed up,) of the church
The Lover to His Beloved: You are a locked garden, my sister, my bride; you are an enclosed spring, a sealed-up fountain.
Fountains and springs » Sometimes stopped or turned off to distress enemies
he consulted with his advisers and military officers about stopping up the springs outside the city, and they supported him. A large number of people gathered together and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the district. They reasoned, "Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?"
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of a numerous posterity
Israel lives in safety, the fountain of Jacob is quite secure, in a land of grain and new wine; indeed, its heavens rain down dew.
Fountains and springs » Mentioned in scripture » Of pisgah
including all the Arabah of the Transjordan in the east to the sea of the Arabah, beneath the watershed of Pisgah.)
Fountains and springs » Constantly flowing » Could not be ceremonially defiled
However, a spring or a cistern which collects water will be clean, but one who touches their carcass will be unclean.
Fountains and springs » Drying up of, a severe punishment
He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land, and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.
Fountains and springs » God to be praised for
He declared in a loud voice: "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has arrived, and worship the one who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water!"
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » (troubled,) of saints led astray
Like a muddied spring and a polluted well, so is a righteous person who gives way before the wicked.
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of the law of the wise
Instruction from the wise is like a life-giving fountain, to turn a person from deadly snares.
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of Godly fear
The fear of the Lord is like a life-giving fountain, to turn people from deadly snares.
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of Christ
"In that day there will be a fountain opened up for the dynasty of David and the people of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
Fountains and springs » Mentioned in scripture » Of jezreel
The Philistines assembled all their troops at Aphek, while Israel camped at the spring that is in Jezreel.
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of a good wife
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in your young wife --
Fountains and springs » Mentioned in scripture » In the way to shur
The Lord's angel found Hagar near a spring of water in the desert -- the spring that is along the road to Shur.
Fountains and springs » Constantly flowing » Especially esteemed
The Lord will continually lead you; he will feed you even in parched regions. He will give you renewed strength, and you will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring that continually produces water.
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » (always flowing,) of unceasing wickedness of the jews
As a well continually pours out fresh water so it continually pours out wicked deeds. Sounds of violence and destruction echo throughout it. All I see are sick and wounded people.'
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » (not failing,) of the church
The Lord will continually lead you; he will feed you even in parched regions. He will give you renewed strength, and you will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring that continually produces water.
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of the holy ghost
let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, 'From within him will flow rivers of living water.'" (Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)
Fountains and springs » Afford » Refreshment to the birds
Fountains and springs » Afford » Drink to the beasts
They provide water for all the animals in the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
Fountains and springs » Frequented by travellers
The Lord's angel found Hagar near a spring of water in the desert -- the spring that is along the road to Shur.
Fountains and springs » Sometimes dried up
The Lord will continually lead you; he will feed you even in parched regions. He will give you renewed strength, and you will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring that continually produces water.
Fountains and springs » Mentioned in scripture » Of the waters of nephtoah
It then went from the top of the hill to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, extended to the cities of Mount Ephron, and went to Baalah (that is, Kiriath Jearim).
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of constant supplies of grace
As for the singers, as well as the pipers -- all of them sing within your walls.
Fountains and springs » Send forth each but one kind of water
A spring does not pour out fresh water and bitter water from the same opening, does it?
Valleys » Abounded with » Fountains and springs
For the Lord your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills,
I will make streams flow down the slopes and produce springs in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water and the arid land into springs.