the River Nile
23 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
- Abounded in Crocodiles
- Abounded in Fish
- Abounded in Reeds and Flags
- Annual Overflow of Its Banks Alluded To
- Called: Sihor
- Called: The Egyptian Sea
- Called: The River
- Called: The Stream of Egypt
- Empties Itself Into the Mediterranean Sea by Seven Streams
- Remarkable Events Connected With: Its Waters Turned Into Blood
- Remarkable Events Connected With: Male Children Drowned In
- Remarkable Events Connected With: Miraculous Generation of Frogs
- Remarkable Events Connected With: Moses Exposed on Its Banks
- The Egyptians: Bathed In
- The Egyptians: Carried on Extensive Commerce By
- The Egyptians: Drank of
- The Egyptians: Punished by Destruction of Its Fish
- The Egyptians: Punished by Failure of Its Waters
- The Egyptians: Took Great Pride In
Abounded in Crocodiles
- Ezekiel 29:3 Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’
Abounded in Fish
- Exodus 7:21 The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. And there was blood throughout the land of Egypt.
- Ezekiel 29:4 But I will put hooks in your jaws and cause the fish of your streams to cling to your scales. I will haul you up out of your rivers, and all the fish of your streams will cling to your scales.
Abounded in Reeds and Flags
- Isaiah 19:6–7 The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither. …
Annual Overflow of Its Banks Alluded To
- Jeremiah 46:8 Egypt rises like the Nile, and its waters churn like rivers, boasting, ‘I will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy the cities and their people.’
- Amos 8:8 Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.
- Amos 9:5 The Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn — all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt —
Called: Sihor
- Joshua 13:3 from the Shihor east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north (considered to be Canaanite territory)— that of the five Philistine rulers of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, as well as that of the Avvites;
- Jeremiah 2:18 Now what will you gain on your way to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? What will you gain on your way to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates?
Called: The Egyptian Sea
- Isaiah 11:15 The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.
Called: The River
- Genesis 41:1 After two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing beside the Nile,
- Genesis 41:3 After them, seven other cows, sickly and thin, came up from the Nile and stood beside the well-fed cows on the bank of the river.
Called: The Stream of Egypt
- Isaiah 27:12 In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one.
Empties Itself Into the Mediterranean Sea by Seven Streams
- Isaiah 11:15 The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.
Remarkable Events Connected With: Its Waters Turned Into Blood
- Exodus 7:15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning as you see him walking out to the water. Wait on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.
- Exodus 7:20 Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded; in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials, Aaron raised the staff and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was turned to blood.
Remarkable Events Connected With: Male Children Drowned In
- Exodus 1:22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”
Remarkable Events Connected With: Miraculous Generation of Frogs
- Exodus 8:3 The Nile will teem with frogs, and they will come into your palace and up to your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.
Remarkable Events Connected With: Moses Exposed on Its Banks
- Exodus 2:3 But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
The Egyptians: Bathed In
- Exodus 2:5 Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it.
The Egyptians: Carried on Extensive Commerce By
- Isaiah 23:3 On the great waters came the grain of Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre; she was the merchant of the nations.
The Egyptians: Drank of
- Exodus 7:21 The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. And there was blood throughout the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 7:24 So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water from the river.
The Egyptians: Punished by Destruction of Its Fish
- 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.
The Egyptians: Punished by Failure of Its Waters
- Isaiah 19:5–6 The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty. …
The Egyptians: Took Great Pride In
- Ezekiel 29:9 The land of Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it,’
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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.