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Drink from the stream; I have already told the ravens to bring you food there."
For the music director; a well-written song by the Korahites. As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God!
For the Lord your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills,
After a while, the stream dried up because there had been no rain in the land.
The ravens would bring him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he would drink from the stream.
The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord like channels of water; he turns it wherever he wants.
The words of a person's mouth are like deep waters, and the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.
"Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.
He is like a tree planted by flowing streams; it yields its fruit at the proper time, and its leaves never fall off. He succeeds in everything he attempts.
On every high mountain and every high hill there will be streams flowing with water, at the time of great slaughter when the fortified towers collapse.
On that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the dry stream beds of Judah will flow with water. A spring will flow out from the temple of the Lord, watering the Valley of Acacia Trees.
Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from a rainstorm; like streams of water in a dry region and like the shade of a large cliff in a parched land.
Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?
Even the wild animals cry out to you; for the river beds have dried up; fire has destroyed the grassy pastures.
On the first day you must take for yourselves branches from majestic trees -- palm branches, branches of leafy trees, and willows of the brook -- and you must rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.
This is why it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord, "Waheb in Suphah and the wadis, the Arnon
So he did as the Lord told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.
"'These you can eat from all creatures that are in the water: Any creatures in the water that have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat.
The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up; the bulrushes and reeds will decay,
They will come back shedding tears of contrition. I will bring them back praying prayers of repentance. I will lead them besides streams of water, along smooth paths where they will never stumble. I will do this because I am Israel's father; Ephraim is my firstborn son.'"
From there they traveled to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a place of flowing streams.
Elijah told them, "Seize the prophets of Baal! Don't let even one of them escape!" So they seized them, and Elijah led them down to the Kishon Valley and executed them there.
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Brooks » Mentioned in scripture » Kidron
All the land was weeping loudly as all these people were leaving. As the king was crossing over the Kidron Valley, all the people were leaving on the road that leads to the desert.
He also removed Maacah his grandmother from her position as queen because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
When he had said these things, Jesus went out with his disciples across the Kidron Valley. There was an orchard there, and he and his disciples went into it.
Brooks » Mentioned in scripture » Gaash
Brooks » Borders of, favorable to » Willows
On the first day you must take for yourselves branches from majestic trees -- palm branches, branches of leafy trees, and willows of the brook -- and you must rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.
Brooks » Mentioned in scripture » Cherith
"Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.
So he did as the Lord told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.
Brooks » Mentioned in scripture » Kishon
Elijah told them, "Seize the prophets of Baal! Don't let even one of them escape!" So they seized them, and Elijah led them down to the Kishon Valley and executed them there.
Do to them as you did to Midian -- as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River!
Brooks » Often ran over pebbles
He took his staff in his hand, picked out five smooth stones from the stream, placed them in the pouch of his shepherd's bag, took his sling in hand, and approached the Philistine.
Brooks » Mentioned in scripture » Zered
Brooks » Mentioned in scripture » Eshcol
When they came to the valley of Eshcol, they cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a staff between two men, as well as some of the pomegranates and the figs. That place was called the Eshcol Valley, because of the cluster of grapes that the Israelites cut from there.
Brooks » Mentioned in scripture » Arnon
This is why it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord, "Waheb in Suphah and the wadis, the Arnon and the slope of the valleys that extends to the dwelling of Ar, and falls off at the border of Moab."
Brooks » Canaan abounded with
For the Lord your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills,
Brooks » Mentioned in scripture » Besor
So David went, accompanied by his six hundred men. When he came to the Wadi Besor, those who were in the rear stayed there.
Brooks » Illustrative » Of wisdom
The words of a person's mouth are like deep waters, and the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.
Brooks » Borders of, favorable to » Grass
Ahab told Obadiah, "Go through the land to all the springs and valleys. Maybe we can find some grazing areas so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to kill some of the animals."
Brooks » Borders of, favorable to » Reeds
along with the plants by the mouth of the river. All the cultivated land near the river will turn to dust and be blown away.
Brooks » Mentioned in scripture » Of the willows
For this reason what they have made and stored up, they carry over the Stream of the Poplars.
Brooks » Illustrative » (drinking of, by the way,) of help in distress
Brooks » Afforded protection to a country
The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up; the bulrushes and reeds will decay,
Brooks » Abounded with fish
The fishermen will mourn and lament, all those who cast a fishhook into the river, and those who spread out a net on the water's surface will grieve.
Brooks » Illustrative » Of temporal abundance
He will not look on the streams, the rivers, which are the torrents of honey and butter.
Brooks » Illustrative » (deceptive,) of false friends
My brothers have been as treacherous as a seasonal stream, and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams that flow away.
Water » Collected in » Brooks
Ahab told Obadiah, "Go through the land to all the springs and valleys. Maybe we can find some grazing areas so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to kill some of the animals."
When the servants of Absalom approached the woman at her home, they asked, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" The woman replied to them, "They crossed over the stream." Absalom's men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.