THE SEA. WATER. compassed me about: all thy f Ezek. xxvi, 15, 18, 19. For thus Gen. 1, 9, 10. And God said, Let billows and thy waves passed saith the Lord God, When I shall the waters under the heaven be over me. The waters compassed make thee a desolate city, like gathered together unto one place, me about, even to the soul: the the cities that are not inhabited; and let the dry land appear: and depth closed me round about, the when I shall bring up the deep it was so. And God called the dry weeds were wrapped about my upon thee, and great waters shall thee. Thus saith the land Earth; and the gathering to-head. I went down to the bottoms cover gether of the waters called he of the mountains; the earth with Lord GOD to Tyrus, Shall not Seas: and God saw that it was her bars was about me for ever: the isles shake at the sound of good. yet hast thou brought up my life thy fall, when the wounded cry, from corruption, O LORD my God. when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure. Neh. ix, 10, 11. And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land; for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them: so didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day. And thou didst divide the sea be fore them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters. Job xxvi, 10. He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end. Job xxxvili, 8, 10, 11, 16. Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed? Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? Ps. xxxii, 7. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses. Ps. civ, 6-9. Thou coveredst it with the deep as with agarment: the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; at the Voice of thy thunder they hasted away. They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to Dan. vii, 2. Daniel spake, and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. Job xxvi, 5. Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof. Ps. xviii, 16. He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. me in the lowest pit, in darkness, Jer. xxxiii, 22. As the host of Ezek. xxviii, 8. They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. Ezek. xxxi, 15. Thus saith the Lord GoD, In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. Rev. viii. 8, 9. And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the Le-third part of the sea became blood; And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed. Rev. xvi, 3. And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea. ALWAYS UNDER DIVINE CONTROL. Job ix, 8. Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. Job xxvi, 12. He divideth the understanding he smiteth through sea with his power, and by his the proud. Isa. li, 14-16, 36. The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name. And I have put my words in thy mouth, and have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people. P8. lxv, 5, 7. By terrible things Jer. li, 36, 42. Therefore thus saith in righteousness wilt thou answer the LORD, Behold, I will plead thy us, O God of our salvation; who cause, and take vengeance for art the confidence of all the ends and make her springs dry. The afar off upon the sea: Which stillthee, and I will dry up her sea, of the earth, and of them that are and sorrow; and the light is dar-sea is come up upon Babylon: she/eth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people. Cover the earth. shall roar against them like the Isa. v, 30. And in that day they roaring of the sea: and if one look anto the laud, behold darkness kened in the heavens thereof. is covered with the multitude of Jonah ii, 3, 5, 6. For thou hadst the waves thereof. cast me into the deep, in the Lam. iii, 54. Waters flowed over midst of the seas; and the floods mine head: then I said, I am cut off, the raging of the sea: when the Ps. lxxxix, 9, 24, 25. Thou rulest waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him; and in my name shall his horn be exalted. I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. P3. xcill, 3, 4. The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. Isa. xvii, 12, 13. Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. Isa. xxiv, 14. They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea. SEAS MENTIONED IN Acts xxvil, 27. But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down In Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country. MEDITERRANEAN-VARIOUSLY Num. xxxiv, 6. And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border. Deut. xi, 24. Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be. Deut. xxxiv, 2. And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judab, unto the utmost sea. Ezra iii, 7. They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia. Zech. xiv, 8. And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder RED SEA. turned a mighty strong west wind, sea: in summer and in wintersnall | that went over Jordan in the people about, through the way of thy bounds from the Red sea' even SALT OR DEAD SEA. rivers among the rocks, and his Job xxviii, 10. He cutteth out eye seeth every precious thing. into the sea; yet the sea is not Tarshish: streams whereof shall make glad Ps. xlvi, 4. There is a river, the the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High. Num. xxxiv, 12. And the bor-stroy also all the beasts thereof Ezek. xxxii, 13, 14. I will de the goings out of it shall be at neither shall the foot of man der shall go down to Jordan, and from beside the great waters, the salt sea: this shall be your trouble them any more, nor the land with the coasts thereof hoofs of beasts trouble them round about. Deut. iii, 17. The plain also, and toward the east sea, and his hin- веа.. . . utmost SEA OF GALILEE OR TIBERIAS. Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD. ward he brought me again unto Ezek. xlvii, 1-3,5-8, 11, 12. Afterthe door of the house; and, beeastward: for the fore-front of the hold, waters issued under the threshold of the house out from house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the of the way of the gate northward, out unto the outer gate by the and led me about the way with altar. Then brought he me out behold, there ran out waters on way that looketh eastward; and, Jesus John vi, 1. After these things man that had the line in his hand the right side. Galilee, which is the sea of Ti-a thousand cubits, and he brought And when the went over the berias. sea of went forth eastward, he measured ward he measured a thousand waters were to the ancles. Afterme through the waters, the not pass over: for the waters were and it was a river that I could risen, waters to swim in, a river And he said unto me, Son of man, that could not be passed over. hast thou seen this? Then be fishers. Jesus showed himself again to SEA OF JAZer. RIVERS. Kishon swept them away, that 1 Chron. xii, 15. These are they brought me, and caused me to Now, when I had returned, be return to the brink of the river. hold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the ans side, and on the other. Then said he unto me, These waters into the sea; which being brought forth into the sea, the waters and go down intothe desert,and go issue out toward the east country, shall be healed. But the miry thereof, shall not be healed; they places thereof, and the marsha shall be given to salt. And by the river, upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine Joel iii, 18. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the Valley of Shittim. Nahum iii, 8, 9. Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea? Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers. Zech. xiv, 8. And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder Sea: in summer and in winter shall it be Rev. viii, 10, 11. And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. Rev. xvi, 3, 4. And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea. And the third angel poured out his vial upou the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood. RIVERS MENTIONED IN ABANA AND PHARPAR. 2 Kings v, 12. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned, and went away in a rage. ARNON. Deut. 11, 36. From Aroer, which 18 by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead. CHEBAR. Ezek. 1, 1, 3. Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him. Ezek. iii, 15. Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days. Ezek. x, 15, 20. And the cherubim were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar. This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubim. Gen. xxxii, 22, 23. And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two women-servants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok. And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had. Deut. 1, 37. Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbade us. JORDAN. Josh. ili, 8. And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan. 2 Kings v, 9, 11, 13. So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean. up a river, and hasteth not: he Job xl, 23. Behold, he drinketh trusteth that he can draw up Jordau into his mouth. the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river of Euphrates. OF ETHIOPIA. Isa. xviii, 1, 2. land shadowing with wings, which Woe to the is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: That sendeta ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled! OF PHILIPPI. the king's household, and to do 1 Kings ix, 26, 27. And king also of Hiram, that brought gold cocks. ships went to Tarshish with the ivory, and apes, and peacocks. Acts xvi, 13 An on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and 2 Chron. xx, 35-37. And after spake unto the women which re-king of Israel, who did very wickthis did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah Borted thither. RIVER OF LIFE. Rev. xxii, 1, 2. And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. SHIPS AND BOATS, ETC. Gen vi, 14. 15. Make thee an ark of gopher-wood: rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of; The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. edly. And he joined himself merchants' ships, she bringeth Ezek. xxvii, 4-6, 9, 25. Thy bor- beauty. They have made all thy ships to make the careless EthioEzek. xxx, 9. In that day shall plans afraid, and great pain shall messengers go forth from me in come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh. him. Daniel xi, 30, 40. For the ships of Chittim shall come against south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against of the end shall the king of the And at the time him like a whirlwind, with cha enter into the countries, and shall with many ships; and he shall riots, and with horsemen, and overtlow and pass over. John vi, 22, 23. The day follow on the other side of the sea, T ing, when the people which stood there, save that one whereinto that there was none other boat his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with his dis disciples were gone away alone ciples into the boat, but that bis (Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias, nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks) VOYAGING. are loosed; they could not well Isa. xxxiii, 23. Thy tacklings prey of a great spoil divided, the strengthen their mast; they could not spread the sail: then is the lame take the prey. Ezek. xxvii, 8, 26-29. The inhabitants of Zion and Arvad Tyrus, that were in thee, were were thy mariners: thy wise men. brought thee into great waters thy the east wind hath broken thee pilots. Thy rowers have in the midst of the seas. riches, and thy fairs, thy mer chandise, thy mariners, and thy Thy pilots, thy calkers, which is in the midst of thee, shall and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and thee, and in all thy company, all thy men of war, that are in fall into the midst of the seas la the day of thy ruin. The suburbs all the pilots of the sea, shall come handle the oar, the mariners, and shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. And all that down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land. the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of to flee unto Tarshish from the banon to make masts for thee. Of the Ashurites have made thy presence of the Loan, and weat Jonah 1, 3, 13. But Jonah rose up the isles of Chittim. The ancients ship going to Tarshish: so he paid benches of ivory, brought out of down to Joppa; and he found a of Gebal,and the wise men thereof, the fare thereof, and went down ships of the sea with their ma-Tarshish from the presence of the riners were in thee to occupy thy LoRD. were in thee thy calkers: all the into it, to go with them unto merchandise. The ships of Tar- rowed hard to bring it to the shish did sing of thee in thy land; but they could not: for the Nevertheless the men 2 Sam. xix, 18. And there wented, and made very glorious in the ous against them. market: and thou wast replenish-sea wrought, and was tempesto over a ferry-boat to carry over midst of the seas. Num. xxiv, 24. And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever. was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea, and he alone on the land. And he saw them toiling in rowing: (for the wind was contrary unto them:) and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them. Mark viii, 14. Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf. John vi, 16, 17. And when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the sea, And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum: and it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them. Acts xvi, 11. Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis. into days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone; And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The Fair Havens, nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea. Now, when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them, And said unto them, Sirs. I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also of our lives. And running under a certain island which is called Clanda, we had much work to come by the boat: Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven. And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship; And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship. But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country: And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms. have fallen upon rocks, they cast Then fearing lest they should four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day. And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have Acts xxl, 1--3. And it came to cast anchors out of the foreship, pass, that, after we were gotten Paul said to the centurion and to from them, and had launched, we the soldiers, Except these abide came with a straight course unto in the ship, ye cannot be saved. Coos, and the day following unto Then the soldiers cut off the ropes Rhodes, and from thence unto of the boat, and let her fall off. Patara: And finding a ship sail- And we were in all in the ship ing over unto Phenicia, we went two hundred threescore and sixaboard, and set forth. Now when teen souls. And when they had we had discovered Cyprus, we eaten enough, they lightened the left it on the left hand, and sailed ship, and cast out the wheat into into Syria, and landed at Tyre: the sea. And when it was day, for there the ship was to unlade they knew not the land: but they These. Acts xx, 4, 5, 13-15. And there accompanied him Asia, Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gains of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Ty. chicus and Trophimus. going before, tarried for us at Troas. And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot. And when he met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene. And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus. her burden. when we discovered a certain creek with a Acts xxvi, 3-10, 16--19, 27-- shore, into the which they were 32, 37-40. And the next day we minded, if it were possible, to touched at Sidon. And Julius thrust in the ship. And when courteously entreated Paul, and they had taken up the anchors, gave him liberty to go unto his they committed themselves unto Iriends to refresh himself. And the sea, and loosed the rudderhad launched from bands, and hoised up the mainthence, we sailed under Cyprus, sail to the wind, and made toward because the winds were contrary. shore. And when we had sailed over the Acts xxviii, 11-13. And after sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we three months we departed in a came to Myra, a city of Lycia. ship of Alexandria, which had And there the centurion found a wintered in the isle, whose sign ship of Alexandria sailing into was Castor and Pollux. Italy; and he put us therein. And landing at Syracuse, we tarried when we had sailed slowly many there three days. And from And thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli. James lil, 4. Behold also the ships, which, though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governer listeth. STORMS. Jonah 1, 4-6, 11, 12. But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken. Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them: but Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not. Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? (for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.) And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you. Matth. viii, 23-26. And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, sayus: we perish. ing, Lord, save And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. Matth. xiv, 24. But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary. Mark iv, 37. And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. Luke vili, 22, 23. Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a ship with his disciples; and he said unto them, Let us go over unto the other side of And they launched the lake. forth. But as they sailed, he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy John vi, 18. And the sea arose, by reason of a great wind that blew. |