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Fountains and Springs

23 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

21 sections

(Always Flowing) of Unceasing Wickedness of the Jews

Jeremiah 6:7 As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.

(Corrupt) of the Natural Heart

James 3:11 Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?
Matthew 15:18–19 But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a man. …

(Not Failing) of the Church

Isaiah 58:11 The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

(Sealed Up) the Church

Song of Solomon 4:12 My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.

(Troubled) Saints Led Astray

Proverbs 25:26 Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.

Abound in Canaan

Deuteronomy 8:7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
1 Kings 18:5 Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”

Afford: Drink to the Beasts

Psalm 104:11 They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

Afford: Fruitfulness to the Earth

1 Kings 18:5 Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”
Joel 3:18 And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.

Afford: Refreshment to the Birds

Psalm 104:12 The birds of the air nest beside the springs; they sing among the branches.

Come from the Great Deep

Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Job 38:16 Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?

Constantly Flowing: Could not be Ceremonially Defiled

Leviticus 11:36 Nevertheless, a spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but one who touches a carcass in it will be unclean.

Constantly Flowing: Especially Esteemed

Isaiah 58:11 The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

Created by God

Psalm 74:15 You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
Psalm 104:10 He sends forth springs in the valleys; they flow between the mountains.

Drying up of, a Severe Punishment

Psalm 107:33–34 He turns rivers into deserts, springs of water into thirsty ground, …
Hosea 13:15 Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come — a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.

Found in Hills and Valleys

Deuteronomy 8:7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
Psalm 104:10 He sends forth springs in the valleys; they flow between the mountains.

Frequented by Travellers

Genesis 16:7 Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert — the spring along the road to Shur.

God to be Praised For

Revelation 14:7 And he said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come. Worship the One who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and the springs of waters.”

Send Forth Each but One Kind of Water

James 3:11 Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?

Sometimes Dried Up

Isaiah 58:11 The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

Sometimes Stopped or Turned off to Distress Enemies

2 Chronicles 32:3–4 he consulted with his leaders and mighty men about stopping up the waters of the springs outside the city, and they helped him carry it out. …

Upper and Nether Springs

Joshua 15:19 “Give me a blessing,” she answered. “Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me springs of water as well.” So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.
Judges 1:15 “Give me a blessing,” she answered. “Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me springs of water as well.” So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.

Related topics

Fountains and Springs of God Fountains and Springs of Eternal Life Fountains and Springs of Spiritual Wisdom Fountains and Springs of the Means of Grace Fountains and Springs in the Way to Shur Fountains and Springs of a Good Wife

Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.