From Nave’s Topical Bible
Dew
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 12Passages listed
- 10Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- A merciful providenceDeuteronomy 33:13
- Forms imperceptibly2 Samuel 17:12
- In the nightJob 29:19
- From the cloudsProverbs 3:20
- Called the dew of heavenDaniel 4:15
- Absence of1 Kings 17:1
- Miraculous profusion and absence ofJudges 6:36–40
- See Meteorology
- FIGURATIVEPsalms 110:3Isaiah 26:19Hosea 6:4Hosea 13:3Hosea 14:5
The passages, in Bible order (12)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 12 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Deuteronomy 33:13
Concerning Joseph he said: “May his land be blessed by the LORD with the precious dew from heaven above and the deep waters that lie beneath,
Commentary on Deuteronomy 33:132 voices
Now, there arises from these twelve enlightenments a threefold fruit. From the first four comes forth the fruit of grace, from the intermediate four, the fruit of righteousness, from the last four, the fruit of wisdom. These fruits are referred to in Deuteronomy: "To Joseph …
Bonaventure· Collations on the Hexaemeron, Collation 18, 1257Patristic
And of Joseph he said,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Judges 6:36–40
Then Gideon said to God, “If You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said,
Commentary on Judges 6:36–402 voices
Some one perhaps will enquire whether he does not seem to have been wanting in faith, seeing that after being instructed by many signs he asked still more. But how can he seem to have asked as if doubting or wanting in faith, who was speaking in mysteries? He was not then doubtful, but careful that we should not doubt. For how could he be doubtful whose prayer was effectual?
Ambrose of Milan· On the Holy Spirit, Book 1, 397Patristic
And Gideon said unto God,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 2 Samuel 17:12
Then we will attack David wherever we find him, and we will descend on him like dew on the ground. And of all the men with him, not even one will remain.
Commentary on 2 Samuel 17:122 voices
So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
As the dew - Like the drops of dew, in the vast number of our host, and in our irresistible and unavoidable descent upon our enemies.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- 1 Kings 17:1
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
Commentary on 1 Kings 17:12 voices
Great is the virtue of fasting. Indeed, its military appearance is so beautiful that it delightfully attracts and elevates humans to heaven for fasting and for Christ: so powerful that it raises men up to heaven. And to use more human than divine examples, from the fasting mouth of Elijah a voice was uttered that closed heaven to the sacrilegious people of the Jews. For when Ahab, the king, had set up an altar to the idol, according to the words of the prophet, there was no rain for three years and six months upon the earth.
Ambrose of Milan· On Elijah and Fasting, Chapter 2, 2-3, 397Patristic
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Job 29:19
My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.
Commentary on Job 29:191 voice
My root is opened beside the waters. And the dew shall stay on my harvest. For 'by the waters the root is opened,' when, for receiving the streams of truth, secretly the thought of the mind is spread out. For as we have already said in a former book, in Holy Writ by the term of 'the root' the hidden thought is used to be denoted. Therefore 'our root we open by the waters,' when to the Interior watering we stretch the thought of the secret heart.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIX, 604Patristic
- Psalms 110:3
Your people shall be willing on Your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, to You belongs the dew of Your youth.
Commentary on Psalms 110:31 voice
But since there are poorly instructed people who, while resisting the doctrine of a Son, think little of the words "from the womb before the morning star I begat you," as if this referred to his relation to Mary, alleging that he was born of Mary "before the morning star." Since to say that "womb" could not refer to his relation toward God, we must address the issue briefly here. If then, because the "womb" is human, therefore it is foreign to God; "heart" too clearly has a human meaning, for that which has heart has womb also.
Athanasius of Alexandria· Discourses Against the Arians 4.27, 373Patristic
- Proverbs 3:20
By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew.
Commentary on Proverbs 3:201 voice
For in the beginning when He created the world and all that therein is, and when He was establishing things, wisdom worked with Him, even as Solomon saith, "The Lord by His wisdom laid the foundations of the earth, and He constructed the heavens by …
Philoxenus of Mabbug· 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 3 -- On Faith, 523Patristic
- Isaiah 26:19
Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
Commentary on Isaiah 26:192 voices
Then, too, Isaiah himself has plainly declared that there shall be joy of this nature at the resurrection of the just, when he says: "The dead shall rise again; those, too, who are in the tombs shall arise, and those who are in the earth shall rejoice. For the dew from Thee is health to them."
Irenaeus· AGAINST HERESIES 5:34.1, 202Patristic
Thy dead men shall live,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Daniel 4:15
But leave the stump with its roots in the ground, and a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender grass of the field. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven and graze with the beasts on the grass of the earth.
Commentary on Daniel 4:152 voices
After he was banished by them, he fled to the desert and his kingdom and the authority and majesty which he had formerly were taken, because he boasted and said, "Who is the god, who shall take you from my hands?" [Daniel 3:15] Later stooping piteously to the earth, and wailing in the mountains, he lived with the beasts, fearing his satraps, lest he be killed by them.
Hippolytus of Rome· Commentary on Daniel 3.9.2-5, 235Patristic
Nevertheless, leave the stump of his roots in the earth,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Hosea 6:4
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.
Commentary on Hosea 6:42 voices
"What shall I do to you, Ephraim? What shall I do to you, Judah? Your mercy is like the morning clouds and like the dew that goes away early: therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments shall go forth as the light." LXX: "What shall I do to you, Ephraim? What shall I do to you, Judah?
Jerome· Commentary on Hosea 6:4-5, 420Patristic
O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee?.... Or, "for thee" (x)?
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Hosea 13:3
Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
Commentary on Hosea 13:32 voices
Therefore they will be like morning clouds, and like morning dew that passes away, like dust swept up by a whirlwind, and like smoke from a chimney." (Vulgate "passing by"). And similarly in the Septuagint: "changing only the final image, 'and like the vapor from locusts' or 'from tears,' since we find it rendered as either 'locusts' or 'tears' in most manuscripts. For, he says, they sacrificed to calves as though slaughtering men; therefore they will be like morning clouds, and like the morning dew that passes, like dust swept up by a whirlwind, and like smoke from a chimney."
Jerome· Commentary on Hosea 13:3, 420Patristic
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Hosea 14:5
I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
Commentary on Hosea 14:52 voices
This is our Faith. Thus did God will that He should be known by all, thus believed the three children, and felt not the fire into the midst whereof they were cast, which destroyed and burnt up unbelievers, whilst it fell harmless as dew upon the faithful, for whom the flames kindled by others became cold, seeing that the torment had justly lost its power in conflict with faith. For with them there was One in the form of an angel, comforting them, to the end that in the number of the Trinity one Supreme Power might be praised.
Ambrose of Milan· Exposition of the Christian Faith 1:4.33, 397Patristic
"I will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them. I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon; his shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive, and his fragrance like Lebanon. They shall return and dwell beneath my shadow; they shall flourish like the grain; they shall blossom like the vine; their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon. O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols?
Jerome· Commentary on Hosea 14:5-9, 420Patristic