'Water' in the Bible

He made ten identical water carts by using the same plans, castings, and shapes for all of them.

But the man of God replied to the king, "Even if you were to offer me half of your house, I wouldn't go with you, and I'm sure not going to eat even a piece of bread or drink water in this place,

because the LORD commanded me specifically, "You are not to eat bread, drink water, or return by the way that you came to arrive here!'"

But he replied, "I can't go back with you to your home, be in your company, or even eat food or drink water with you in this place,

because I've been given a command in the form of this message from the LORD: "You are to eat no food, drink no water, and do not return to Judah by traveling the way by which you go there.'"

"I'm a prophet like you," the old man replied, "and an angel spoke to me and delivered this message from the LORD: "Bring him back with you to your house and give him food and water.'" But he was lying,

and the man of God accompanied the old prophet back to his house, ate some food, and drank some water.

but instead you returned to eat and drink in the very place that he told you "Eat no food and drink no water," your body will not be buried in the same grave as your ancestors.'"

After the meal was over, and the man had eaten food and had drunk water, the old prophet saddled the donkey for him that is, for the man of God whom he had brought back.

So he got up and went to Zarephath. As he arrived at the entrance to the city, a widow was there gathering sticks. So he asked her, "Please, may I have some water in a cup so I can have a drink."

While she was on her way to get the water, he called out to her, "Would you please also bring me a piece of bread while you're at it?"

had taken 100 prophets and had hidden them by fifties in a cave, providing them with food and water when Jezebel was trying to destroy the LORD's prophets.

Hasn't anyone told you, my master, what I did when Jezebel was killing the LORD's prophets? I hid 100 of the LORD's prophets by fifties in a cave and provided food and water for them.

Then he laid the wood in order, cut the bull into pieces, and laid them on top of the wood. "Fill four pitchers with water," he ordered. "Then pour them out on the burnt offering and the wood."

"Do it a third time," he said. So they did it a third time. The water ran down around the altar and completely filled the trench.

Right then the LORD's fire fell and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, the dust, and even the water that was in the trench!

So he looked around, and there near his head was a muffin sitting on top of some heated stones, along with a jar of water. Elijah ate and drank and then lay down again.

Give him this order: "Place him in prison on survival rations of bread and water only until I come back safely.'"

Elijah took off his ornamented cloak, wrapped it up in a roll, struck the water, and all of a sudden the water divided into two parts! One side of the river stood still opposite the other until the two of them crossed over on dry ground.

Elisha took hold of Elijah's ornamental cloak that had been left behind, struck the water, and cried out: "Where is the LORD God of Elijah?" All of a sudden, after he had struck the water, the water divided into two parts! One side of the river stood opposite the other, and Elisha crossed over.

So the king of Israel, the king of Judah, and the king of Edom made a complete circuit on the road for seven days, but there was no water for the army or for the livestock that accompanied them.

This is what the LORD says: "Though you won't see wind or storm, nevertheless that river will overflow with water so that you, your cattle, and your livestock may drink.'

The very next day, about the time of the morning offering, water suddenly appeared, coming from the direction of Edom, and the land overflowed with water!

As the Moabites arose early that morning, the sun cast its rays on the water, and to the Moabites, the water across from them appeared to be red like blood.

They destroyed their cities, and all of them threw stones onto every piece of farm land, ruining the fields. Then they filled in all the water wells and chopped down all of the useful trees. Stone walls remained surrounding Kir-hareseth only, until the archers surrounded and attacked that city.

Aren't the Abana and Pharpar rivers in Damascus better than all of the water in Israel? Couldn't I just bathe in them and become clean?" So he turned away and left, filled with anger.

It happened that as one of them was felling a beam, his axe head fell into the water. He cried out, "Oh no! Master! The axe was on loan to me!"

But he replied, "No! You're not to kill them! Would you execute those whom you've taken captive at the point of a sword or with your bow? Give them food and water so they can eat and drink. Then send them back to their master!"

But the very next day, Hazael grabbed a thick covering, soaked it in water, and spread it over the king's face, and he suffocated. Then Hazael succeeded Ben-hadad as king.

Don't listen to Hezekiah, because this is what the king of Assyria says: "Make peace with me and come out to me! Each of you will eat from his own vine. Each will eat from his own fig tree. And each of you will drink water from his own cistern

I myself dug for and drank foreign water. With the sole of my foot I dried up all the streams of Egypt!"

Now the rest of Hezekiah's actions, as well as his glorious deeds, including how he constructed the pool and the conduit to bring water into the city, are recorded in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah, are they not?

David expressed a longing, "Oh, how I wish someone would get me a drink of water from the Bethlehem well that's by the city gate!"

So the Three Warriors broke through the Philistine ranks, drew some water from the Bethlehem well that was next to the city gate, and brought it back to David. But David refused to drink it, poured it out in the LORD's presence, and

he developed a plan with his commanders and his elite forces to cut off the water supply from the springs that were outside the city, and they helped him to carry it out.

Many people gathered together and plugged up all the springs, along with the stream that flowed through the region. They were thinking to themselves, "Why should the Assyrian kings invade and discover an abundant water supply?"

(Now the Temple Servants were living on the Ophel as far as the Water Gate that faces eastward with its prominent tower.)

No one neither I, my allies, my servants, nor the bodyguards who accompanied me changed clothes. Everyone carried a weapon even while going for water.

Ezra read from it, facing the plaza in front of the Water Gate, from early in the morning until mid-day in the presence of the men and women, as well as all who could understand. All the people were attentive to the Book of the Law.

All the people gathered as a united body into the plaza in front of the Water Gate. They asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.

Then the people went out and found branches to make tents for themselves on the roofs of their houses, in their courtyards, and in the courts of God's Temple, in the plaza near the Water Gate, and in the plaza near the Gate of Ephraim.

You gave them food from heaven for their hunger and water from the rock for their thirst. You directed them to enter and possess the land that you had promised to give them.

"You gave your good Spirit to instruct them, not withholding manna from them, and providing water to quench their thirst.

At the Fountain Gate, which stood opposite them, they ascended the stairs of the City of David where the wall rose above the house of David east of the Water Gate.

because they did not greet the Israelis with food and water, but instead hired Balaam to oppose them by cursing them, even though our God turned the curse into a blessing.

"As far as I'm concerned, my food comes to me in the form of sighs, and my cries of anguish pour out like water.

"Can papyrus grow where there's no marsh? Can reeds flourish without water?

"If I wash myself with water from snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

You'll forget your suffering; you'll remember it like water that has evaporated.

When he withholds water, rivers dry up; when he lets them loose, they'll flood the land.

the presence of water will make it to bud so that it sprouts new branches like a young plant.

As water disappears from the sea, or water evaporates from a river,

Water wears away stones; floods wash away topsoil from the land but you destroy the hope of human beings just like that!

then how much less is one who is abhorred and corrupted, such as a man who drinks injustice like water?"

You've neglected to give water to the weary, and you've withheld food from the hungry.

"He imparted weight to the wind; he regulated water by his measurement.

My roots have spread out and have found water, and dew settles at night on my branches.

"What man is like Job, who drinks mockery like water,

He draws up drops of water, distilling it to rain and mist.

From the breath of God ice is produced, and a wide body of water is frozen.

when water solidifies like stone and the surface of the deepest sea freezes?

"Can you call out to the clouds, so that abundant water drenches you?

Who has the wisdom to be able to count the clouds, or to empty the water jars of heaven,

"Can you draw Leviathan out of the water with a hook, or tie down his tongue with a rope?

He causes the deep to boil like water in a pot, and churns the sea like one stirs ointment.

He will be like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in its season, and whose leaf does not wither. He will prosper in everything he does.

I am poured out like water; all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, melting within me.

He gathered the oceans into a single place; he put the deep water into storehouses.

As an antelope pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, God.

May they flow away like rain water that runs off, may they become like someone who shoots broken arrows.

You take care of the earth, you water it, and you enrich it greatly with the river of God that overflows with water. You provide grain for them, for you have ordained it this way.

You fill the furrows of the field with water so that their ridges overflow. You soften them with rain showers; their sprouts you have blessed.

You caused men to ride over us. You brought us through fire and water, but you led us to abundance.

I am sinking in deep mire, and there is no solid ground. I have come into deep water, and the flood overwhelms me.

Therefore God's people return there and drink it all in like water until they're satiated.

You split the sea by your own power. You shattered the heads of sea monsters in the water.

He divided the sea so that they were able to cross; he caused the water to stand in a single location.

He caused the rocks to split in the wilderness, and gave them water as from an abundant sea.

He brought streams from rock, causing water to flow like a river.

It's true that Moses struck the rock so that water flowed forth and torrents of water gushed out, but is he also able to give bread or to supply meat for his people?"

to make their blood flow like water around Jerusalem, with no one being buried.

He lays the beams of his roof loft on the water above, making clouds his chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.

You covered the primeval ocean like a garment; the water stood above the mountains.

They give water for animals of the field to drink; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

He turned their water into blood, so that the fish died.

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

The water overwhelmed their enemies, so that not one of them survived.

He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into dry ground,

He turns a desert into a pool of water, dry land into springs of water.

He wore curses like a garment may they enter his inner being like water and his bones like oil.

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

Though I have become like a water skin dried by smoke, I have not forgotten your statutes.

He sends out his word and melts them. He makes his wind blow and the water flows.

Drink water from your own cistern, and fresh water from your own well.

Should your springs flow outside, or streams of water in the street?

A generous person will prosper, and anyone who gives water will receive a flood in return.

Starting a quarrel is like spilling water so drop the dispute before it escalates.

A father's ruin is a foolish son, and a wife's quarreling is like dripping water that never stops.

A king's heart is a water stream that the LORD controls; he directs it wherever he pleases.

If your enemy hungers, give him food to eat; and if he thirsts, give him water to drink.