8 Bible Verses about Continents
Most Relevant Verses
And God said, "Let the waters under heaven be gathered to one place, and let the dry ground appear." And it was so.
He stretches out [the] north over emptiness; [he] hangs [the] earth {over nothing}.
{Proud wild animals} have not trodden it; [the] lion in its prime has not prowled over it. He puts his hand on the hard rock; he overturns mountains by [the] roots. He cuts out tunnels in the rocks, and his eye sees every treasure.read more.
He dams up rivers from [their] sources, and he brings secret things to [the] light.
"Where were you at my laying the foundation of [the] earth? Tell [me], if you possess understanding. Who determined its measurement? Yes, you do know. Or who stretched [the] measuring line upon it? On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone,read more.
when [the] morning stars were singing together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? "Or [who] shut [the] sea in with doors at its bursting, [when] it went out of [the] womb, at my making [the] clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band, and I prescribed my rule for it, and I set bars and doors, and I said, 'You shall come up to here, but you shall not go further, and here it will set [a boundary] {for your proud surging waves}'? "Have you {ever in your life} commanded [the] morning? Have you made the dawn know its place, to take hold of the earth's skirts so that the wicked might be shaken off from it? It is changed like clay [under] a seal, and they appear like a garment. And their light is withheld from [the] wicked, and [their] uplifted arm is broken. "Have you entered into [the] sea's sources? Or have you walked around in [the] recesses of the deep? Have [the] gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen [the] gates of deep shadow? Have you considered closely [the] earth's vast expanse? Declare [it], if you know all of it.
to whom belongs the sea that he made, and [the] dry land [that] his hands formed.
He established [the] earth on her foundations, [so that] it will not be moved forever and ever. You covered it with [the] deep as with a garment. [The] waters stood above [the] mountains. At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they ran off.read more.
They ascended [the] mountains [and] drained though the valleys to [the] place that you established for them. You set a boundary that they may not cross over, [so that] they would not return to cover the earth.
because he has founded it on [the] seas, and has established it on [the] rivers.
And to Eber two sons were born. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and the name of his brother [was] Joktan.