Net
26 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
Figurative
- Job 18:8 For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.
- Job 19:6 then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
- Psalm 9:15 The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
- Psalm 10:9 He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.
- Psalm 25:15 My eyes are always on the LORD, for He will free my feet from the mesh.
- Psalm 31:4 You free me from the net laid out for me, for You are my refuge.
- Psalm 35:7–8 For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul. …
- Psalm 57:6 They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah
- Psalm 66:11 You led us into the net; You laid burdens on our backs.
- Psalm 140:5 The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah
- Psalm 141:10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.
- Proverbs 12:12 The wicked desire the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.
- Proverbs 29:5 A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
- Ecclesiastes 9:12 For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
- Isaiah 19:8 Then the fishermen will mourn, all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.
- Ezekiel 26:5 She will become a place to spread nets in the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations,
- Ezekiel 26:14 I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread the fishing nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, the LORD, have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.’
- Ezekiel 47:10 Fishermen will stand by the shore; from En-gedi to En-eglaim they will spread their nets to catch fish of many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.
- Hosea 7:12 As they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the air. I will chastise them when I hear them flocking together.
Fish Caught In
- Matthew 4:18–21 As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. …
- Matthew 13:47 Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea and caught all kinds of fish.
- Luke 5:4 When Jesus had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”
- John 21:6–11 He told them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it there, and they were unable to haul it in because of the great number of fish. …
Hidden in a Pit
- Psalm 35:7–8 For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul. …
Set for Birds
- Proverbs 1:17 How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
Wild Animals
- Isaiah 51:20 Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.