Ezekiel 47:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Again, after his measuring a thousand, it became a river which it was not possible to go through: for the waters had become deep enough for swimming, a river it was not possible to go through.

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  • Hab 2:14 : 14 For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters.
  • Isa 11:9 : 9 There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain: for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters.
  • Dan 2:34-35 : 34 While you were looking at it, a stone was cut out, but not by hands, and it gave the image a blow on its feet, which were of iron and earth, and they were broken in bits. 35 Then the iron and the earth, the brass and the silver and the gold, were smashed together, and became like the dust on the floors where grain is crushed in summer; and the wind took them away so that no sign of them was to be seen: and the stone which gave the image a blow became a great mountain, covering all the earth.
  • Matt 13:31-32 : 31 He put another story before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his field: 32 Which is smaller than all seeds; but when it has come up it is greater than the plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and make their resting-places in its branches.
  • Rev 7:9 : 9 After these things I saw a great army of people more than might be numbered, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and languages, taking their places before the high seat and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and with branches in their hands,
  • Rev 11:15 : 15 And at the sounding of the seventh angel there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will have rule for ever and ever.
  • Rev 20:2-4 : 2 And he took the dragon, the old snake, which is the Evil One and Satan, and put chains on him for a thousand years, 3 And put him into the great deep, and it was shut and locked over him, so that he might put the nations in error no longer, till the thousand years were ended: after this he will be let loose for a little time. 4 And I saw high seats, and they were seated on them, and the right of judging was given to them: and I saw the souls of those who were put to death for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and those who did not give worship to the beast, or to his image, and had not his mark on their brows or on their hands; and they were living and ruling with Christ a thousand years.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 47:1-4
    4 verses
    87%

    1 And he took me back to the door of the house; and I saw that waters were flowing out from under the doorstep of the house on the east, for the house was facing east: and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south side of the altar.

    2 And he took me out by the north doorway, and made me go round to the outside of the doorway looking to the east; and I saw waters running slowly out on the south side.

    3 And the man went out to the east with the line in his hand, and after measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters, which came over my feet.

    4 And again, measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters which came up to my knees. Again, measuring a thousand, he made me go through the waters up to the middle of my body.

  • Ezek 47:6-9
    4 verses
    82%

    6 And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen this? Then he took me to the river's edge.

    7 And he took me back, and I saw at the edge of the river a very great number of trees on this side and on that.

    8 And he said to me, These waters are flowing out to the east part of the land and down into the Arabah; and they will go to the sea, and the waters will be made sweet.

    9 And it will come about that every living and moving thing, wherever their streams come, will have life; and there will be very much fish because these waters have come there and have been made sweet: and everything wherever the river comes will have life.

  • Jer 46:7
    71%

    7 Who is this coming up like the Nile, whose waters are lifting their heads like the rivers?

  • Isa 19:5
    69%

    5 And the waters of the sea will be cut off, and the river will become dry and waste:

  • Ps 124:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4 We would have been covered by the waters; the streams would have gone over our soul;

    5 Yes, the waters of pride would have gone over our soul.

  • Rev 22:1
    68%

    1 And I saw a river of water of life, clear as glass, coming out of the high seat of God and of the Lamb,

  • Josh 3:15-17
    3 verses
    68%

    15 And when those who took up the ark came to Jordan, and the feet of the priests who took up the ark were touching the edge of the water (for the waters of Jordan are overflowing all through the time of the grain-cutting),

    16 Then the waters flowing down from higher up were stopped and came together in a mass a long way back at Adam, a town near Zarethan; and the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were cut off: and the people went across opposite Jericho.

    17 And the priests who took up the ark of the agreement of the Lord kept their places, with their feet on dry land in the middle of Jordan, while all Israel went over on dry land, till all the nation had gone over Jordan.

  • Isa 8:7
    68%

    7 For this cause the Lord is sending on them the waters of the River, deep and strong, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it will come up through all its streams, overflowing all its edges:

  • Ezek 37:2
    68%

    2 And he made me go past them round about: and I saw that there was a very great number of them on the face of the wide valley, and they were very dry.

  • Dan 12:5
    68%

    5 Then I, Daniel, looking, saw two others, one at the edge of the river on this side and one at the edge of the river on that side.

  • Isa 37:25
    68%

    25 I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

  • Isa 43:2
    68%

    2 When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.

  • Exod 7:24-25
    2 verses
    68%

    24 And all the Egyptians made holes round about the Nile to get drinking-water, for they were not able to make use of the Nile water.

    25 And seven days went past, after the Lord had put his hand on the Nile.

  • 2 Kgs 19:24
    68%

    24 I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

  • Lam 3:54
    67%

    54 Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.

  • Eccl 1:7
    67%

    7 All the rivers go down to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the rivers go, there they go again.

  • Dan 10:4
    66%

    4 And on the twenty-fourth day of the first month I was by the side of the great river;

  • Ezek 42:19
    66%

    19 And he went round and took the measure of it on the west side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

  • Ezek 42:16-17
    2 verses
    66%

    16 He went round and took the measure of it on the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

    17 And he went round and took the measure of it on the north side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

  • Ps 114:5
    66%

    5 What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back?

  • Isa 51:10
    66%

    10 Did you not make the sea dry, the waters of the great deep? did you not make the deep waters of the sea a way for the Lord's people to go through?

  • 2 Sam 22:17
    66%

    17 He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.

  • Jonah 2:5
    66%

    5 And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?

  • 2 Kgs 2:8
    66%

    8 Then Elijah took off his robe, and, rolling it up, gave the water a blow with it, and the waters were parted, flowing back this way and that, so that they went over on dry land.

  • Isa 33:21
    66%

    21 But there the Lord will be with us in his glory, ... wide rivers and streams; where no boat will go with blades, and no fair ship will be sailing.

  • Josh 4:23
    66%

    23 For the Lord your God made the waters of Jordan dry before you till you had gone across, as he did to the Red Sea, drying it up before us till we had gone across:

  • Ps 114:3
    66%

    3 The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back.

  • Ps 78:44
    66%

    44 So that their rivers were turned to blood, and they were not able to get drink from their streams.

  • Isa 43:16
    66%

    16 This is the word of the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a road through the deep waters;

  • Ezek 32:14
    66%

    14 Then I will make their waters clear and their rivers will be flowing like oil, says the Lord.

  • Ps 46:4
    66%

    4 There is a river whose streams make glad the resting-place of God, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.

  • Job 11:9
    66%

    9 Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.

  • Neh 2:14
    66%

    14 Then I went on to the door of the fountain and to the king's pool: but there was no room for my beast to get through.

  • Ps 18:16
    66%

    16 He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.

  • Ezek 31:4
    66%

    4 It got strength from the waters and the deep made it tall: its streams went round about its planted land and it sent out its waterways to all the trees of the field.

  • Job 14:11
    65%

    11 The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;