17 Bible Verses about Fishes

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Genesis 1:20-21

And God will say the waters shall breed abundantly creeping things, the living soul, and birds shall fly over the earth, over the face of the firmament of the heavens. And God will form great sea. monsters and every living soul creeping, which the waters bred abundantly according to their kind, and every bird of wing according to its kind: and God will see that it is good.

Deuteronomy 4:15-18

And watch ye greatly to your souls, for ye saw not any appearance in the day Jehovoh spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye shall be corrupted and make to you a carved thing, the appearance of any likeness, the model of male or female, The model of any cattle that is upon the earth, the model of any winged bird that shall fly in the heavens,read more.
The model of any thing creeping upon the earth, the model of any fish that is in the waters from under the earth:

Matthew 4:18

And Jesus, walking about by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon being called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a sweep-net into the sea; for they were fishermen.

Matthew 4:18-21

And Jesus, walking about by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon being called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a sweep-net into the sea; for they were fishermen. And he says to them, Come after me, and I will make you the fishermen of men. And they instantly having let go their nets, followed him.read more.
And having proceeded thence, he saw other two brethren, James him of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the ship with Zebedee their father, adjusting their nets; and he called them.

Jonah 1:17

And Jehovah will prepare a great fish to swallow down Jonah: and Jonah will be in-the bowels of the fish three days and three nights.

Matthew 14:17-21

And they say to him, We have not here but five loaves, and two fishes. And he said, Bring them here to me. And having encouraged the crowds to recline upon the grass, and having taken the five loaves, and two fishes, and having looked up to heaven, he praised; and having broken, gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the crowds.read more.
And they all ate, and were satisfied; and they took up the remaining of fragments, twelve baskets full. And they eating were five thousand men, besides women and children.

Ezekiel 47:9

And it was every living soul that shall creep, to all where the two torrents shall come there, shall live: and there was very many fish, because these waters came there: and they shall be healed and all lived where the torrent shall come there.

Exodus 7:18

And the fish which is in the river shall die, and the river be loathsome: and the Egyptians labored in vain to drink the water from the river.

Isaiah 19:8

And the fishermen groaned, and all casting the hook into the river mourned, and they spreading nets upon the face of the water, languished.

Jeremiah 16:16

Behold me sending for many fishers, says Jehovah, and they fished them; and after this I will send for many hunters, and they hunted them from every mountain, and from every hill, and from the clefts of the rocks.

Matthew 7:9-10

Or what man is of you, which, if his son ask bread, he will not give him a stone? And if he ask a fish, he will not give him a serpent?

Matthew 14:17

And they say to him, We have not here but five loaves, and two fishes.

Numbers 11:5

We remembered the fish which we ate in Egypt gratuitously; the cucumbers and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlics.

Luke 24:42

And they bestowed upon him part of a broiled fish, and of an honey comb.

John 21:13

Then comes Jesus, and takes bread, and gives them, and fish likewise.

Matthew 12:40

For as Jonas was in the whale's belly three days and three nights; so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

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Fishes » Distinction between clean, and unclean

Leviticus 11:9-12

And this shall ye eat from all which are in the water: all which to it is a fin and scale in the water, in the seas, and in the rivers, ye shall eat them. And every one which to it is not a fin and scale in the seas and in the rivers, from all creeping in the water, and from every living soul which is in the water, they an abomination to you, And they shall be an abomination to you: from their flesh ye shall, not eat, and their carcasses ye shall abhor. read more.
Every one which is not to it a fin and scale in the water, this is abomination to you.

Deuteronomy 14:9-10

This shall ye eat from all which is in the waters: all which to it are fins and scales, ye shall eat: And every thing which to it are not fins and scales, ye shall not eat; it is unclean to you.

Fishes » Sold near the fish gate at jerusalem

2 Chronicles 33:14

And after this he built a wall outside to the city of David from the west to Gihon, in the valley to the entering into the gate of fishes, and it turned round about to the hill, and he will lift it up greatly, and he will set chiefs of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah.

Zephaniah 1:10

And it was in that day, says Jehovah, a voice of a cry from the gate of fishes, and a wailing from the second, and a great breaking from the hills.

Fishes » Inhabit » Ponds

Song of Solomon 7:4

Thy neck as a tower of ivory; thine eyes pools in Heshbon, by the gate of the daughter of many: thy nose as the tower of Lebanon viewing the face of Damascus.

Isaiah 19:10

And her pillars were broken in pieces, and all making wages, sorrowful in soul.

Fishes » Miracles connected with » Multiplying a few

Matthew 14:17-21

And they say to him, We have not here but five loaves, and two fishes. And he said, Bring them here to me. And having encouraged the crowds to recline upon the grass, and having taken the five loaves, and two fishes, and having looked up to heaven, he praised; and having broken, gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the crowds. read more.
And they all ate, and were satisfied; and they took up the remaining of fragments, twelve baskets full. And they eating were five thousand men, besides women and children.

Matthew 15:34

And he says to them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.

Fishes » No likeness of, to be made for worship

Exodus 20:4

Thou shalt not make to thee a carved image, and every appearance that is in the heavens above, and that is in the earth beneath, and that is in the water under the earth.

Deuteronomy 4:18

The model of any thing creeping upon the earth, the model of any fish that is in the waters from under the earth:

Fishes » Inhabit » Seas

Ezekiel 47:10

And it was the fisherman shall stand upon it from the fountain of the kid, even to the fountain of the two calves; they shall be a spreading for nets; their fish shall be according to its kind as the fish of the great sea very many.

Numbers 11:22

Shall the sheep and the oxen be slaughtered for them and suffice for them? and if he shall gather all the fish of the sea to them, and it suffice for them?

Fishes » Mentioned in scripture » Whale

Genesis 1:21

And God will form great sea. monsters and every living soul creeping, which the waters bred abundantly according to their kind, and every bird of wing according to its kind: and God will see that it is good.

Matthew 12:40

For as Jonas was in the whale's belly three days and three nights; so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

Fishes » Man given dominion over

Fishes » Often suffered for man's sin

Ezekiel 38:20

And from my face shall shake the fish of the sea, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the field, and every creeping thing creeping upon the earth, and every man which is upon the face of the earth; and the mountains were overthrown, and the precipices fell, and every wall shall fall to the earth.

Exodus 7:21

And the fish which was in the river died; and the river will be loathsome; and the Egyptians will not be able to drink the water from the river: and the blood will be upon all the land of Egypt

Fishes » Inhabit » Rivers

Exodus 7:18

And the fish which is in the river shall die, and the river be loathsome: and the Egyptians labored in vain to drink the water from the river.

Ezekiel 29:5

And I cast thee to the desert, thee and all the fish of thy. rivers: thou shalt fall upon the face of the field; thou shalt not be gathered, and thou shalt not be collected.: I gave thee for food to the beast of the earth and to the birds of the heavens.

Fishes » Taken with » Hooks

Matthew 17:27

But that we should not scandalize them, having gone to the sea, cast a fish hook, and lift up the fish coming up first, and having opened its mouth, thou shalt find a gold coin: having taken that, give to them for me and thee.

Amos 4:2

The Lord Jehovah sware by his holiness, that behold, the days coming upon you and he took you away with hooks, and your last part with thorns of the fish.

Fishes » Taken with » Nets

Luke 5:4-6

And when he ceased speaking, he said to Simon, Sail out into the deep, and slacken your nets for fishing. And Simon having answered, said to him, Commander, wearied for the whole-night, we took nothing: but at thy word I will slacken the net. And having done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes, and their net broke through;

John 21:6-8

And he said to them, Cast the net to the right parts of the ship, and ye shall find. Therefore they cast, and were no more able to draw it, from the multitude of fishes. Then that disciple says, whom Jesus loved, to Peter, It is the Lord. Then Simon Peter having heard that it is the Lord, girded round the upper garment, (for he was naked,) and cast himself into the sea. And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as from two hundred cubits) dragging the net of fishes.

Fishes » Catching of, a trade

Matthew 4:18

And Jesus, walking about by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon being called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a sweep-net into the sea; for they were fishermen.

Luke 5:2

And he saw two ships standing near the lake: and the fishermen having gone out of them, washed the fishing-nets.

Fishes » Mentioned in scripture » Leviathan

Job 41:1

Wilt thou draw out the crocodile with a hook and with a cord wilt thou press down his tongue?

Psalm 74:14

Thou didst break the heads of the sea monster, thou wilt give him for food to the people, to the inhabitants of the desert

Fishes » Mode of cooking alluded to

John 21:9

When therefore they came away to the land, they see a heap of burning coals laid, and little fish laid upon, and bread.

Luke 24:42

And they bestowed upon him part of a broiled fish, and of an honey comb.

Fishes » Different in flesh from beasts, &c

1 Corinthians 15:39

Not all flesh the same flesh: but one truly flesh of men, and another of cattle, and another of fishes, and another of flying things.

Fishes » Miracles connected with » Immense draughts of

Luke 5:6

And having done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes, and their net broke through;

Luke 5:9

For amazement held him, and all those with him, at the fishing of the fishes which they took:

Fishes » Illustrative » Of men ignorant of future events

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For also man knew not his time: as the fishes being laid hold of in an evil net, and as the birds laid hold of in the snare, as they, the sons of men being snared for an evil time, as it will fall upon them suddenly.

Fishes » Illustrative » (bad,) of mere professors

Matthew 13:48-49

Which, when it was filled, having raised up upon the shore, and having set down, they gathered the good things into vessels, and the rotten things they cast without. So shall it be in the end of time; the messengers shall come forth, and separate the evil from the midst of the just,

Fishes » Illustrative » (good,) of saints

Matthew 13:48-49

Which, when it was filled, having raised up upon the shore, and having set down, they gathered the good things into vessels, and the rotten things they cast without. So shall it be in the end of time; the messengers shall come forth, and separate the evil from the midst of the just,

Fishes » Created by God

Genesis 1:20-21

And God will say the waters shall breed abundantly creeping things, the living soul, and birds shall fly over the earth, over the face of the firmament of the heavens. And God will form great sea. monsters and every living soul creeping, which the waters bred abundantly according to their kind, and every bird of wing according to its kind: and God will see that it is good.

Fishes » Illustrative » Of the whole population of egypt

Ezekiel 29:4-5

And I gave hooks in thy jaw bones, and I glued the fishes of thy rivers upon thy scales, and I brought thee up from the midst of thy rivers, and all the Ashes of thy rivers shall be glued to thy scales. And I cast thee to the desert, thee and all the fish of thy. rivers: thou shalt fall upon the face of the field; thou shalt not be gathered, and thou shalt not be collected.: I gave thee for food to the beast of the earth and to the birds of the heavens.

Fishes » The tyrians traded in

Nehemiah 13:16

And the Tyrians sat in it, bringing in fish and every selling, and selling in the Sabbath to the sons of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

Fishes » Miracles connected with » Procuring tribute money from

Matthew 17:27

But that we should not scandalize them, having gone to the sea, cast a fish hook, and lift up the fish coming up first, and having opened its mouth, thou shalt find a gold coin: having taken that, give to them for me and thee.

Fishes » Illustrative » Of those ensnared by the wicked

Habakkuk 1:14

And wilt thou make man as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping thing no ruler over him?

Fishes » Illustrative » Of the visible church

Matthew 13:48

Which, when it was filled, having raised up upon the shore, and having set down, they gathered the good things into vessels, and the rotten things they cast without.

Fishes » Man permitted to eat

Genesis 9:2-3

And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every living thing of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens, upon every thing which shall creep along the earth and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand they were given. Every creeping thing which it lives shall be food to you as the green herb. I gave you all things.

Fishes » Used as food » By the egyptians

Numbers 11:5

We remembered the fish which we ate in Egypt gratuitously; the cucumbers and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlics.

Fishes » Used as food » By the jews

Matthew 7:10

And if he ask a fish, he will not give him a serpent?

Fishes » Number and variety of

Psalm 104:25

This great and broad sea, hands there of the creeping thing, and no number of the beasts, small with great

Fishes » Solomon wrote the history of

1 Kings 4:33

And he will speak concerning the woods, from the cedar which is in Lebanon, even to the hyssop which went forth on the wall: and he will speak upon the cattle, and upon the birds, and upon the creeping things, and upon the fishes.

Fishes » Cannot live without water

Isaiah 50:2

Wherefore, I came, and no man? I called and none answered. Being short, was my hand shortened from redeeming? and if not power in me to deliver behold, in my rebuke I will dry up the sea; I will set the rivers a desert: their fish shall stink from no water, and they shall die with thirst

Fishes » Made for God's glory

Job 12:8-9

Or speak to the earth and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall recount to thee. Who knew not in all these that the hand of God did this?

Fishes » Miracles connected with » Dressed on the shore

John 21:9

When therefore they came away to the land, they see a heap of burning coals laid, and little fish laid upon, and bread.

Fishes » Taken with » Spears

Job 41:7

Wilt thou fill his skin with pointed weapons? and his head with fish spears?

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