From Nave’s Topical Bible
Fish
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.
- 28Passages listed
- 14Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Creation ofGenesis 1:20–22
- Appointed for foodGenesis 9:2Genesis 9:3
- Clean and uncleanLeviticus 11:9–12Deuteronomy 14:9Deuteronomy 14:10
- Caught
- With netsEcclesiastes 9:12Habakkuk 1
- HooksIsaiah 19:8Amos 4:2Matthew 17:27
- SpearsJob 41:7
- Ponds for
- In Heshbon So 7:4
- In EgyptIsaiah 19:10
- Traffic inNehemiah 13:16John 21:13
- BroiledJohn 21:9–13Luke 24:42
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- Miracles connected with
- Jonah swallowed byJonah 1:17Jonah 2Matthew 12:40
- Of the loaves and fishesMatthew 14:19Matthew 15:36Luke 5:6Luke 9:3–17
- Coin obtained from mouth ofMatthew 17:27
- Great draught ofLuke 5:4–7John 21:6
- Furnished to the disciples by Jesus after his resurrectionLuke 24:42John 21:9–13
- FIGURATIVEEzekiel 47:9Ezekiel 47:10
The passages, in Bible order (28)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 1:20–22
And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
Commentary on Genesis 1:20–221 voice
The rivers were in labor. The lakes produced their quota of life. The sea itself began to bear all manner of reptiles.… We are unable to record the multiplicity of the names of all those species which by divine command were brought to life in a moment of time. At the same instant substantial form and the principle of life were brought into existence.… The whale, as well as the frog, came into existence at the same time by the same creative power.
Ambrose of Milan· The Six Days of Creation, 397Patristic
- Genesis 9:2
The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.
Commentary on Genesis 9:22 voices
And the fear or you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
And the Lord blessed Noah and his sons and said to them: Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth; and the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, …
Cosmas Indicopleustes· The Christian Topography, Book 5, 550Patristic
- Genesis 9:3
Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
Commentary on Genesis 9:32 voices
And the Lord blessed Noah and his sons and said to them: Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth; and the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, …
Cosmas Indicopleustes· The Christian Topography, Book 5, 550Patristic
And He changed the food of men, giving them leave to eat flesh: for from Adam the first-formed until the Flood men ate only of seeds and the fruit of trees, and to eat flesh was not permitted to them.
Irenaeus· The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching, Section 22, 202Patristic
- Leviticus 11:9–12
Of all the creatures that live in the water, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat anything with fins and scales.
Commentary on Leviticus 11:9–122 voices
Any fish, either from salt water or fresh, might be eaten if it had both scales and fins. but no other creature that lives in the waters. Shellfish of all kinds, whether mollusks or crustaceans, and cetaceous animals, were therefore prohibited, as well as fish which appear to have no scales, like the eel; probably because they were considered unwholesome, and (under certain circumstances) found to be so.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 14:9
Of all the creatures that live in the water, you may eat anything with fins and scales,
Commentary on Deuteronomy 14:91 voice
These ye shall eat of, all that are in the waters,.... The fishes there, even such as have fins and scales, but they that have not were not to be eaten: See Gill on Lev 11:9, Lev 11:10, Lev 11:11, Lev 11:12.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 14:10
but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.
- Nehemiah 13:16
Additionally, men of Tyre who lived there were importing fish and all kinds of merchandise and selling them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah in Jerusalem.
Commentary on Nehemiah 13:161 voice
And the Tyrians lived in it, bringing in fish, etc. Just as the good fish represents pious faith, which when one asks from the Lord, one does not receive the serpent of unbelief; similarly, the wicked fish represents base thoughts, which by their very nature …
Bede· Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah, 735Patristic
- Job 41:7
Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
Commentary on Job 41:71 voice
["And all the ships come together would not be able to bear the mere skin of his tail."] All the ships come together are not capable to mortify the extreme and main parts of the dragon. People using bodies or ships cannot by themselves lift a single piece of the skin of his tail. But with the favor of divine virtue, they can bear not only a piece of the skin of his tail but also his entire body, and [they can] mortify it.
Origen of Alexandria· FRAGMENTS ON JOB 28.85, 253Patristic
- 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.
Commentary on Ecclesiastes 9:121 voice
Now as these things are written in the Scriptures, the case is clear, that the saints know that a certain time is measured to every person, but that no one knows the end of that time is plainly intimated by the words of David, "Declare unto me the shortness of my days." What he did not know, that he desired to be informed of.
Athanasius of Alexandria· DEFENSE OF HIS FLIGHT 15, 373Patristic
- 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.
Commentary on Isaiah 19:82 voices
(v. 8-10) And the fishermen shall mourn, and all those who cast the hook into the river shall lament, and those who spread the net over the face of the water shall wither away. And those who work with flax, twisting and weaving fine fabrics, shall be put to shame; and its pools shall be dried up, and all those who make fishing-gear for catching fish shall mourn.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
(Verset 5 et suiv.) And the sea water will dry up, and the river will be deserted and dried up, and the rivers will fail, and the streams of the embankments will be thin and dry up. The reed and the rush will wither, the bed of the river will be exposed from its source, and all irrigated crops will dry up. It will dry up and cease to exist.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
- Isaiah 19:10
The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the hired workers will be sick at heart.
Commentary on Isaiah 19:102 voices
Third, the ruin of various craftsmen, they shall be confounded that wrought in flax, which is raised in wet places. Flaccid, that is, parched, pools, fish ponds.
Thomas Aquinas· Commentary on Isaiah, 1274Patristic
(v. 8-10) And the fishermen shall mourn, and all those who cast the hook into the river shall lament, and those who spread the net over the face of the water shall wither away. And those who work with flax, twisting and weaving fine fabrics, shall be put to shame; and its pools shall be dried up, and all those who make fishing-gear for catching fish shall mourn.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
- Ezekiel 47:9
Wherever the river flows, there will be swarms of living creatures and a great number of fish, because it flows there and makes the waters fresh; so wherever the river flows, everything will flourish.
Commentary on Ezekiel 47:91 voice
And it shall come to pass that everything that liveth, which moveth,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 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.
Commentary on Ezekiel 47:102 voices
He was baptized and came up who draws all things into his net. Out of the stream from which Simon caught fish came the fisher of men, and he took him. With the cross, which catches all robbers, he caught that robber up into life. …
Ephrem the Syrian· HYMNS ON THE NATIVITY 3, 373Patristic
And it shall come to pass,.... In Gospel times: what follows had a fulfilment in the first times of the Gospel, and will have a greater in the latter times of it: that the fishers shall stand upon it; upon the brink of the river, or the shore of the sea, whose waters will be healed by this river running into them.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Amos 4:2
The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
Commentary on Amos 4:22 voices
(Chapter 4, Verse 1 onwards) Hear this word, you fat cows of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to your husbands, 'Bring us something to drink!' The Lord God has sworn by his holiness: behold, days are coming upon you when they will take you away with hooks, even the last of you with fishhooks. And you will go out through breaches, each one straight ahead, and you will be cast out into Harmon, declares the Lord.
Jerome· Commentary on Amos, 420Patristic
He will take you away with hooks - Two modes of fishing are here alluded to: 1. Angling with rod, line, and baited hook. 2. That with the gaff, eel-spear, harpoon, or such like; the first used in catching small fish, by which the common people may be here represented; the second, for catching large fish, such as leave the sea, and come up the rivers to deposit their spawn; or such as are caught in the sea, as sharks, whales, dolphins, and even the hippopotamus, to which the more powerful and opulent inhabitants may be likened.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
- Jonah 1:17
Now the LORD had appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish.
Commentary on Jonah 1:172 voices
"Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah." LXX: 'and the Lord ordered a great fish to swallow Jonah'. The Lord commanded death and the underworld to receive the prophet. To the eager jaws of death he seemed a prey: she had such joy in swallowing him, and such sadness in spitting him out. Thus happened what is written in Hosea: "I will be your death, O Death! I will be your bite, Hell!" [Hos. 13:14].
Jerome· Commentary on Jonah, Chapter 1, 420Patristic
Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed