Nile, the River

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Isaiah 11:15 OT

  Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals.

• Genesis 41:1 OT

  At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by the river.

• Genesis 41:3 OT

  Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.

• Isaiah 27:12 OT

  It will happen in that day that Yahweh will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.

• Joshua 13:3 OT

  from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, which is counted as Canaanite; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the…

• Jeremiah 2:18 OT

  Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or why do you to go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

• Ezekiel 29:3 OT

  Speak and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the middle of his rivers, that has said, ‘My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.’

• Exodus 7:21 OT

  The fish that were in the river died. The river became foul. The Egyptians couldn’t drink water from the river. The blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.

• Ezekiel 29:4 OT

  I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales. I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.

• Isaiah 19:6 OT

  The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.

• Isaiah 19:7 OT

  The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no more.

• Jeremiah 46:8 OT

  Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers. He says, ‘I will rise up. I will cover the earth. I will destroy cities and its inhabitants.’

• Amos 8:8 OT

  Won’t the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.

• Amos 9:5 OT

  For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.

• Ezekiel 29:9 OT

  The land of Egypt will be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am Yahweh. “ ‘ “Because he has said, ‘The river is mine, and I have made it;’

• Isaiah 23:3 OT

  On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations.

• Exodus 2:5 OT

  Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her servant to get it.

• Exodus 7:24 OT

  All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn’t drink the river water.

• Isaiah 19:5 OT

  The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.

• Isaiah 19:8 OT

  The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.

• Exodus 1:22 OT

  Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

• Exodus 2:3 OT

  When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.

• Exodus 7:15 OT

  Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he is going out to the water. You shall stand by the river’s bank to meet him. You shall take the rod which was turned to a serpent in your hand.

• Exodus 7:20 OT

  Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.