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RIVERS (also includes brooks, canals and streams)

names of:

♦ Pishon:

• Genesis 2:11

♦ Gihon (related to the land of Cush):

• Genesis 2:13

♦ Tigris:

• Genesis 2:14

♦ Euphrates:

• Genesis 2:14; 15:18; Deuteronomy 1:7; Jeremiah 46:2; Revelation 9:14

♦ Jordan:

• Genesis 13:10; Joshua 16:7; Matthew 3:5-6

♦ river of Egypt:

• Genesis 15:18

♦ Jabbok:

• Genesis 32:22; Numbers 21:24

♦ Nile:

• Genesis 41:1, 3, 17

♦ Arnon:

• Numbers 21:13, 24

♦ Zered:

• Deuteronomy 2:13-14

♦ Shihor:

• Joshua 13:3

♦ Kanah:

• Joshua 16:8

♦ Kishon:

• Judges 4:7, 13

♦ Besor:

• 1 Samuel 30:9, 21

♦ Gihon (related to Palestine):

• 1 Kings 1:33, 38

♦ Cherith:

• 1 Kings 17:3-5

♦ Abanah:

• 2 Kings 5:12

♦ Pharpar:

• 2 Kings 5:12

♦ Gozan:

• 2 Kings 17:6

♦ Ahava:

• Ezra 8:15, 21

♦ Chebar:

• Ezekiel 1:1

♦ Ulai:

♦ unnamed rivers in the future:

• Ezekiel 47:1-12; Revelation 22:1-2

used for:

♦ irrigation:

• Genesis 2:10

♦ scenery in a divinely revealed dream:

• Genesis 41:1-37

♦ bathing:

• Exodus 2:5; 2 Kings 5:12

♦ an instrument of God's judgment:

• Exodus 7:14-25; Psalms 78:43-44

♦ a source of fish:

• Leviticus 11:9-11; Ezekiel 47:10

♦ drinking:

• 1 Kings 17:4

♦ a place of encampment:

• 1 Kings 17:5; Ezra 8:15, 21

♦ miraculous cleansing from leprosy:

• 2 Kings 5:14

♦ transportation:

• Isaiah 23:3

♦ freshening of sea water:

• Ezekiel 47:8

♦ a place of flourishing life:

• Ezekiel 47:9-10, 12 (cf. Revelation 22:1-2)

♦ baptism:

• Matthew 3:5-6

♦ objects of God's judgment:

• Revelation 8:10; 16:4

symbolic of:

♦ overwhelming forces of an enemy:

• Psalms 124:1-5

♦ blessings for God's people:

• Psalms 36:8; Isaiah 41:17-18

♦ fountains of wisdom:

• Proverbs 18:4

♦ well-being or peace for God's people:

• Isaiah 48:18; 66:12

♦ human tears:

• Lamentations 2:18

♦ blessings flowing from the Spirit within believers:

• John 7:38-39

This topic is from the Lockman Foundation.

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