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Fountains and Springs
Created by God - Ps 74:15; 104:10
God to be praised for - Re 14:7
Come from the great deep - Ge 7:11; Job 38:16
Found in hills and valleys - De 8:7; Ps 104:10
Send forth each but one kind of water - Jas 3:11
AFFORD
- Drink to the beasts
- Ps 104:11- Refreshment to the birds
- Ps 104:12- Fruitfulness to the earth
- 1Ki 18:5; Joe 3:18Frequented by travellers - Ge 16:7
Abound in Canaan - De 8:7; 1Ki 18:5
Sometimes dried up - Isa 58:11
Drying up of, a severe punishment - Ps 107:33,34; Ho 13:15
CONSTANTLY FLOWING
- Especially esteemed
- Isa 58:11- Could not be ceremonially defiled
- Le 11:36Sometimes stopped or turned off to distress enemies - 2Ch 32:3,4
MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE
- In the way to Shur
- Ge 16:7- Of the waters of Nephtoah
- Jos 15:9- Of Jezreel
- 1Sa 29:1- Of Pisgah
- De 4:49- Upper and nether springs
- Jos 15:19; Jud 1:15ILLUSTRATIVE
- Of God
- Ps 36:9; Jer 2:13; 17:13- Of Christ
- Zec 13:1- Of the Holy Spirit
- Joh 7:38,39- Of constant supplies of grace
- Ps 87:7- Of eternal life
- Joh 4:14; Re 21:6- Of the means of grace
- Isa 41:18; Joe 3:18- Of a good wife
- Pr 5:18- Of a numerous posterity
- De 33:28- Of spiritual wisdom
- Pr 16:22; 18:4- Of the law of the wise
- Pr 13:14- Of godly fear
- Pr 14:27- (Sealed up,) of the church
- So 4:12- (Not failing,) of the church
- Isa 58:11- (Always flowing,) of unceasing wickedness of the Jews
- Jer 6:7- (Corrupt,) of the natural heart
- Jas 3:11; Mt 15:18,19- (Troubled,) of saints led astray
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