Ezekiel 47:8

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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.

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  • Josh 3:16 : 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.
  • Deut 3:17 : 17 As well as the Arabah, with the river Jordan as their limit, from Chinnereth to the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah to the east.
  • Isa 41:17-19 : 17 The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up. 18 I will make rivers on the dry mountain-tops, and fountains in the valleys: I will make the waste land a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. 19 I will put in the waste land the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive-tree; and in the lowland will be planted the fir-tree, the plane, and the cypress together:
  • 2 Kgs 2:19-22 : 19 Now the men of the town said to Elisha, You see that the position of this town is good; but the water is bad, causing the young of the cattle to come to birth dead. 20 So he said, Get me a new vessel, and put salt in it; and they took it to him. 21 Then he went out to the spring from which the water came, and put salt in it, and said, The Lord says, Now I have made this water sweet; no longer will it be death-giving or unfertile. 22 And the water was made sweet again to this day, as Elisha said.
  • Isa 44:3-5 : 3 For I will send water on the land needing it, and streams on the dry earth: I will let my spirit come down on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring. 4 And they will come up like grass in a well-watered field, like water-plants by the streams. 5 One will say, I am the Lord's; and another will give himself the name, Jacob; another will put a mark on his hand, I am the Lord's, and another will take the name of Israel for himself.
  • Isa 35:7 : 7 And the burning sand will become a pool, and the dry earth springs of waters: the fields where the sheep take their food will become wet land, and water-plants will take the place of grass.
  • Isa 43:20 : 20 The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom I have taken for myself:
  • Deut 4:49 : 49 And all the Arabah on the far side of Jordan to the east, as far as the sea of the Arabah under the slopes of Pisgah.
  • Isa 11:6-9 : 6 And the wolf will be living with the lamb, and the leopard will take his rest with the young goat; and the lion will take grass for food like the ox; and the young lion will go with the young ones of the herd; and a little child will be their guide. 7 And the cow and the bear will be friends while their young ones are sleeping together. 8 And the child at the breast will be playing by the hole of the snake, and the older child will put his hand on the bright eye of the poison-snake. 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.
  • Isa 35:1 : 1 The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers.
  • Isa 49:9 : 9 Saying to those who are in chains, Go free; to those who are in the dark, Come out into the light. They will get food by the way wherever they go, and have grass-lands on all the dry mountain-tops.
  • Jer 31:9 : 9 They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.
  • Mal 1:11 : 11 For, from the coming up of the sun till its going down, my name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place the smell of burning flesh is offered to my name, and a clean offering: for my name is great among the Gentiles, says the Lord of armies.
  • Matt 13:15 : 15 For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

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  • Ezek 47:9-12
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    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.

    10 And fishermen will take up their places by it: from En-gedi as far as En-eglaim will be a place for the stretching out of nets; the fish will be of every sort, like the fish of the Great Sea, a very great number.

    11 The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet; they will be given up to salt.

    12 And by the edge of the river, on this side and on that, will come up every tree used for food, whose leaves will ever be green and its fruit will not come to an end: it will have new fruit every month, because its waters come out from the holy place: the fruit will be for food and the leaf will make well those who are ill.

  • Zech 14:8
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    8 And on that day living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them flowing to the sea on the east and half to the sea on the west: in summer and in winter it will be so.

  • Ezek 47:1-7
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    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.

    5 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.

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 2:21-22
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    21 Then he went out to the spring from which the water came, and put salt in it, and said, The Lord says, Now I have made this water sweet; no longer will it be death-giving or unfertile.

    22 And the water was made sweet again to this day, as Elisha said.

  • Isa 19:5-7
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    5 And the waters of the sea will be cut off, and the river will become dry and waste:

    6 And the rivers will have an evil smell; the stream of Egypt will become small and dry: all the water-plants will come to nothing.

    7 The grass-lands by the Nile, and everything planted by the Nile, will become dry, or taken away by the wind, and will come to an end.

  • Eccl 1:7
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    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.

  • Ezek 32:14
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    14 Then I will make their waters clear and their rivers will be flowing like oil, says the Lord.

  • Rev 22:1
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    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,

  • Deut 8:7
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    7 For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;

  • Exod 7:17-18
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    17 So the Lord says, By this you may be certain that I am the Lord; see, by the touch of this rod in my hand the waters of the Nile will be turned to blood;

    18 And the fish in the Nile will come to destruction, and the river will send up a bad smell, and the Egyptians will not be able, for disgust, to make use of the water of the Nile for drinking.

  • Isa 41:18
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    18 I will make rivers on the dry mountain-tops, and fountains in the valleys: I will make the waste land a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

  • Isa 35:6-7
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    6 Then will the feeble-footed be jumping like a roe, and the voice which was stopped will be loud in song: for in the waste land streams will be bursting out, and waters in the dry places.

    7 And the burning sand will become a pool, and the dry earth springs of waters: the fields where the sheep take their food will become wet land, and water-plants will take the place of grass.

  • Isa 44:27
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    27 Who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will make your rivers dry:

  • Joel 3:18
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    18 Put in the blade, for the grain is ready: come, get you down, for the wine-crusher is full, the vessels are overflowing; for great is their evil-doing.

  • Josh 3:16
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    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.

  • Ezek 47:20
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    20 And the west side will be the Great Sea, from the limit on the south to a point opposite the way into Hamath. This is the west side.

  • John 7:38
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    38 He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water.

  • Isa 37:25
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    25 I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

  • Isa 43:16
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    16 This is the word of the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a road through the deep waters;

  • Ps 114:5
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    5 What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back?

  • Ps 107:33
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    33 He makes rivers into waste places, and springs of water into a dry land;

  • Job 14:11
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    11 The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;

  • Isa 48:21
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    21 They had no need of water when he was guiding them through the waste lands: he made water come out of the rock for them: the rock was parted and the waters came flowing out.

  • Ezek 37:2
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    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.

  • Isa 8:7
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    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:

  • Ps 107:35
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    35 He makes a waste land into a place of water, and a dry land into water-springs.

  • Ps 114:3
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    3 The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back.

  • 2 Kgs 19:24
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    24 I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

  • Ezek 31:4
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    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.

  • Ezek 47:18
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    18 And the east side will be from Hazar-enon, which is between Hauran and Damascus; and between Gilead and the land of Israel the Jordan will be the limit, to the east sea, to Tamar. This is the east side.

  • Gen 2:10
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    10 And a river went out of Eden giving water to the garden; and from there it was parted and became four streams.

  • Jer 51:36
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    36 For this reason the Lord has said: See, I will give support to your cause, and take payment for what you have undergone; I will make her sea dry, and her fountain without water.

  • Nah 1:4
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    4 He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength.

  • Isa 42:15
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    15 I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.