Pools and Ponds
18 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
19 sections
- (In the Wilderness) of the Gifts of the Spirit
- (Turning Cities Into) Great Desolation
- Artificial, Designed For: Preserving Fish
- Artificial, Designed For: Supplying Cities with Water
- Artificial, Designed For: Supplying Gardens with Water
- Bethesda
- Filled by the Rain
- Gibeon
- Hebron
- Made by God
- Made by Man
- Samaria
- Siloam
- The King's Pool
- The Land of Egypt Abounded In
- The Lower Pool
- The Old Pool
- The Upper Pool
- Water of, Brought Into the City by a Ditch or Conduit
(In the Wilderness) of the Gifts of the Spirit
- Isaiah 35:7 The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.
- Isaiah 41:18 I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.
(Turning Cities Into) Great Desolation
- Isaiah 14:23 “I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
Artificial, Designed For: Preserving Fish
- Isaiah 19:10 The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the hired workers will be sick at heart.
Artificial, Designed For: Supplying Cities with Water
- 2 Kings 20:20 As for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, along with all his might and how he constructed the pool and the tunnel to bring water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
Artificial, Designed For: Supplying Gardens with Water
- Ecclesiastes 2:6 I built reservoirs to water my groves of flourishing trees.
Bethesda
- John 5:2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool with five covered colonnades, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda.
Filled by the Rain
- Psalm 84:6 As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; even the autumn rain covers it with pools.
Gibeon
- 2 Samuel 2:13 So Joab son of Zeruiah and the servants of David marched out and met them by the pool of Gibeon. And the two groups took up positions on opposite sides of the pool.
Hebron
- 2 Samuel 4:12 So David commanded his young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.
Made by God
- Isaiah 35:7 The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.
Made by Man
- Isaiah 19:10 The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the hired workers will be sick at heart.
Samaria
- 1 Kings 22:38 And the chariot was washed at the pool of Samaria where the prostitutes bathed, and the dogs licked up Ahab’s blood, according to the word that the LORD had spoken.
Siloam
- John 9:7 Then He told him, “Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came back seeing.
The King's Pool
- Nehemiah 2:14 Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal under me to get through;
The Land of Egypt Abounded In
- Exodus 7:19 And the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt— over their rivers and canals and ponds and all the reservoirs— that they may become blood.’ There will be blood …
The Lower Pool
- Isaiah 22:9 You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool.
The Old Pool
- Isaiah 22:11 You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.
The Upper Pool
- 2 Kings 18:17 Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by the aqueduct of …
- Isaiah 7:3 Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct that feeds the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field,
Water of, Brought Into the City by a Ditch or Conduit
- Isaiah 22:11 You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.
- 2 Kings 20:20 As for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, along with all his might and how he constructed the pool and the tunnel to bring water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
Related topics
Pools and Ponds of NinevehPool of JerusalemFuller's FieldGihon
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.