Topic
Nile, the River
25 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 41:1Torrey CALLED — The river
And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
- Genesis 41:3Torrey CALLED — The river
And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.
- Exodus 1:22Torrey REMARKABLE EVENTS CONNECTED WITH — Male children drowned in
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
- Exodus 2:3Torrey REMARKABLE EVENTS CONNECTED WITH — Moses exposed on its banks
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
- Exodus 2:5Torrey THE EGYPTIANS — Bathed in
¶ And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
- Exodus 7:15Torrey REMARKABLE EVENTS CONNECTED WITH — Its waters turned into blood
Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river’s brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.
- Exodus 7:20Torrey REMARKABLE EVENTS CONNECTED WITH — Its waters turned into blood
And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
- Exodus 7:21Torrey ABOUNDED IN — Fish
And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 7:24Torrey THE EGYPTIANS — Drank of
And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.
- Exodus 8:3Torrey REMARKABLE EVENTS CONNECTED WITH — Miraculous generation of frogs
And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
- Joshua 13:3Torrey CALLED — Sihor
From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:
- Isaiah 11:15Torrey Empties itself into the Mediterranean Sea by seven streams
And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
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- Isaiah 19:5 Torrey THE EGYPTIANS — Punished by failure of its waters
- Isaiah 19:6 Torrey ABOUNDED IN — Reeds and flags
- Isaiah 19:7 Torrey ABOUNDED IN — Reeds and flags
- Isaiah 19:8 Torrey THE EGYPTIANS — Punished by destruction of its fish
- Isaiah 23:3 Torrey THE EGYPTIANS — Carried on extensive commerce by
- Isaiah 27:12 Torrey CALLED — The stream of Egypt
- Jeremiah 2:18 Torrey CALLED — Sihor
- Jeremiah 46:8 Torrey Annual overflow of its banks alluded to
- Ezekiel 29:3 Torrey ABOUNDED IN — Crocodiles
- Ezekiel 29:4 Torrey ABOUNDED IN — Fish
- Ezekiel 29:9 Torrey THE EGYPTIANS — Took great pride in
- Amos 8:8 Torrey Annual overflow of its banks alluded to
- Amos 9:5 Torrey Annual overflow of its banks alluded to
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Texts: Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.