'Flowing' in the Bible

The first [river] is named Pishon; it flows around the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the entire land of Cush [in Mesopotamia].

The third river is named Hiddekel (Tigris); it flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.

And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.

While Isaac's servants were digging in the valley, they discovered a well with flowing water.

And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.

And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.

And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, at dawn the sea came flowing back, meeting the Egyptians in their flight, and the Lord sent destruction on the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.

By the breath of your nostrils the waters were piled up, the flowing waters stood up like a hill, the deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea.

“Take also for yourself the finest of spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, two hundred and fifty, and of fragrant cane two hundred and fifty,

Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.

Then the priest is to command that one bird be slaughtered on an earthen vessel over flowing water.

He is to take the live bird, the cedar wood, the crimson thread, and the hyssop, and dip them together in the blood of the bird that had been slaughtered over the flowing water.

Then he is to slaughter one bird on an earthen vessel over flowing water.

He is to take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the two crimson threads, and the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird over flowing water. Then he is to sprinkle the house seven times.

He is to clean the house with the blood of the bird over flowing water, including cleansing the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the crimson thread.

"When the one with the discharge is cleansed from his discharge, then he is to set aside for himself seven days for his cleansing. He is to wash his clothes and bathe with flowing water. Then he will be clean.

And I promised you: You will inherit their land, since I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am Yahweh your God who set you apart from the peoples.

They reported to Moses: “We went into the land where you sent us. Indeed it is flowing with milk and honey, and here is some of its fruit.

If the Lord is pleased with us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and give it to us.

Is it not enough that you brought us up from a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Do you also have to appoint yourself as ruler over us?

Furthermore, you didn’t bring us to a land flowing with milk and honey or give us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? We will not come!”

Then for the unclean person they shall take some of the ashes of the burnt purification from sin and flowing water shall be added to them in a vessel.

Listen, Israel, and be careful to follow them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you a land flowing with milk and honey.

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;

Now, when you made the calf that made you sin, I grabbed it, burned it with fire, crushed it, and ground it thoroughly until it was pulverized to powder. Then I threw the powder into the river that was flowing from the mountain."

From there they moved on to Gudgodah and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with flowing streams.

and so that you may live long in the land the Lord swore to your fathers to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

The elders of that city will bring the cow down to a continually flowing stream, to a place not tilled or sown, and they will break its neck there by the stream.

He led us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Look down from Your holy dwelling, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land You have given us as You swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Write all the words of this law on the stones after you cross to enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you.

When I bring them into the land I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. They will turn to other gods and worship them, despising Me and breaking My covenant.

And of Joseph he said, Let the blessing of the Lord be on his land; for the good things of heaven on high, and the deep waters flowing under the earth,

When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, come to rest in the Jordan’s waters, its waters will be cut off. The water flowing downstream will stand up in a mass.”

When those carrying the ark came up to the Jordan, and the priests carrying the ark dipped their feet in the edge of the water (the Jordan was flowing over its banks during all the days of harvest),

and the water flowing downstream stood still, rising up in a mass that extended as far as Adam, a city next to Zarethan. The water flowing downstream into the Sea of the Arabah (the Dead Sea) was completely cut off, and the people crossed opposite Jericho.

tell them how the water of the Jordan stopped flowing before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it crossed the Jordan, the water of the Jordan stopped flowing. These stones will be a lasting memorial for the Israelites."

When the priests carrying the ark of the Lord’s covenant came up from the middle of the Jordan, and their feet stepped out on solid ground, the waters of the Jordan resumed their course, flowing over all the banks as before.

For the Israelites wandered in the wilderness 40 years until all the nation’s men of war who came out of Egypt had died off because they did not obey the Lord. So the Lord vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Because of the flowing hair of the fighters in Israel, because the people gave themselves freely, give praise to the Lord.

And the watchmen of Saul, looking out from Geba in the land of Benjamin, saw all the army flowing away and running here and there.

The people came into the woods and there was flowing honey, but no one put his hand to his mouth to eat it because the people were afraid due to the oath.

And they call with a loud voice, and cut themselves, according to their ordinance, with swords and with spears, till a flowing of blood is on them;

Then Elijah took off his robe, and, rolling it up, gave the water a blow with it, and the waters were parted, flowing back this way and that, so that they went over on dry land.

Sure enough, the next morning, at the time of the morning sacrifice, water came flowing down from Edom and filled the land.

When the containers were full, she said to one of her sons, "Bring me another container." But he answered her, "There are no more." Then the olive oil stopped flowing.

But he replied, "There isn't even one pot left." Then the oil stopped flowing. After this, she went and told the man of God what had happened. So he said, "Go sell the oil, pay your debt, and you and your children will be able to live on the proceeds."

So they got together a great number of people, and had all the water-springs and the stream flowing through the land stopped up, saying, Why let the kings of Assyria come and have much water?

And I made them come together by the river flowing to Ahava; and we were there in tents for three days: and after viewing the people and the priests I saw that no sons of Levi were there.

For your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing away:

He will not enjoy the streams,the rivers flowing with honey and cream.

The possessions in his house will be removed,flowing away on the day of God’s anger.

He dams up the streams from flowingso that he may bring to light what is hidden.

When my steps were washed with milk, and rivers of oil were flowing out of the rock for me.

Flowing down from the sky, and dropping on the peoples.

By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

at [the] flowing of [the] dust into a cast and [the] clods cling together?

He is like a tree planted by flowing streams; it yields its fruit at the proper time, and its leaves never fall off. He succeeds in everything he attempts.

The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.

I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

My heart is flowing over with good things; my words are of that which I have made for a king; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

You are fairer than the children of men; grace is flowing through your lips; for this cause the blessing of God is with you for ever.

Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.

Have faith in him at all times, you people; let your hearts go flowing out before him: God is our safe place. (Selah.)

My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.

Let me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld.

For this reason they are full of bread; and water is ever flowing for them.

You opened up springs and streams;You dried up ever-flowing rivers.

He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers.

You sent the springs into the valleys; they are flowing between the hills.

He opened a rock, and water gushed out flowing like a river in the desert.

who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flinty rock into flowing springs.

Rivers of water are flowing from my eyes, because men do not keep your law.

Let my lips be flowing with praise, because you have given me knowledge of your rules.

It is like precious oil on the head, descending to the beard even to Aaron's beard and flowing down to the edge of his robes.

At the outgoing of his word, the ice is turned to water; when he sends out his wind, there is a flowing of waters.

Drink water from your own cistern,water flowing from your own well.

Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.

When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.

What the righteous say is a flowing fountain, but what the wicked say conceals violence.

The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.

My son, take honey, for it is good; and the flowing honey, which is sweet to your taste:

All the streams flow to the sea,yet the sea is never full.The streams are flowing to the place,and they flow there again.

You are a garden spring,a well of flowing waterstreaming from Lebanon.

I rose to open for my love.My hands dripped with myrrh,my fingers with flowing myrrhon the handles of the bolt.

His head is pure gold -- fine gold, His locks flowing, dark as a raven,

His cheeks are like beds of spice,towers of perfume.His lips are lilies,dripping with flowing myrrh.

Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. Your flowing locks are like purple, and a king could be captured in the dangling tresses.

Your mouth is like fine wine—W flowing smoothly for my love,gliding past my lips and teeth!

the mirrors, and the fine linen bodices, and the turbans, and the flowing veils.

Then the Lord said to Isaiah, Go out now, you and Shear-jashub, your son, and you will come across Ahaz at the end of the stream flowing from the higher pool, in the highway of the washerman's field;

Because these people rejectedthe slowly flowing waters of Shiloahand rejoiced with Rezinand the son of Remaliah,

In that day the Lord will start His threshing from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel.

And I will make right decision the measuring-line, and righteousness the weight: and the ice-storm will take away the safe place of false words, and the secret place will be covered by the flowing waters.

On every high mountain and every high hill there will be streams flowing with water, at the time of great slaughter when the fortified towers collapse.

For the burial place is already prepared; it has been made deep and wide for the king. The firewood is piled high on it. The Lord's breath, like a stream flowing with brimstone, will ignite it.

Their dead bodies will be thick on the face of the earth, and their smell will come up, and the mountains will be flowing with their blood, and all the hills will come to nothing.