Pools and Ponds

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Isaiah 35:7 OT

  The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.

• Isaiah 19:10 OT

  The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul.

• 2 Kings 20:20 OT

  Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

• Ecclesiastes 2:6 OT

  I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were grown.

• Isaiah 22:11 OT

  You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who planed it long ago.

• Psalms 84:6 OT

  Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.

• John 5:2 NT

  Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda”, having five porches.

• 2 Samuel 2:13 OT

  Joab the son of Zeruiah and David’s servants went out, and met them by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.

• 2 Samuel 4:12 OT

  David commanded his young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in Abner’s grave in Hebron.

• 1 Kings 22:38 OT

  They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves; according to Yahweh’s word which he spoke.

• John 9:7 NT

  and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.

• 2 Kings 18:17 OT

  The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which…

• Isaiah 7:3 OT

  Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller’s field.

• Isaiah 22:9 OT

  You saw the breaches of David’s city, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

• Nehemiah 2:14 OT

  Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king’s pool, but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.

• Exodus 7:19 OT

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood. There will…

• Nahum 2:8 OT

  But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one looks back.

• Isaiah 41:18 OT

  I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the middle of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

• Isaiah 14:23 OT

  “I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says Yahweh of Armies.