Fish

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

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.

1. 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.”

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2. 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.

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3. 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 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.

   “Every moving thing - shall be meat - There is no positive evidence that animal food was ever used before the flood. Noah had the first grant of this kind, and it has been continued to all his posterity ever since. It is not likely that this grant would have been now made if some extraordinary alteration had not taken place in the vegetable world, so as to render its productions less nutritive than they were before; and probably such a change in the constitution of man as to render a grosser and higher diet necessary.

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4. 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 11:9–121 voice

   “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.

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5. Deuteronomy 14:9

   Of all the creatures that live in the water, you may eat anything with fins and scales,

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6. Deuteronomy 14:10

   but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.

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7. 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

   “Friendly relations subsisted between the Phoenicians and the Jews, after the captivity Ezr 3:7. It was, however, a new fact, and one pregnant with evil consequences, that the Tyrians should have established a permanent colony at Jerusalem. Its influence on the other inhabitants weakened the hold of the Law upon men’s consciences, and caused it to be transgressed continually more and more openly.

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8. Job 41:7

   Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

   ›Commentary on Job 41:72 voices

   “Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? - Referring to its thickness and impenetrability. A common method of taking fish is by the spear; but it is here said that the leviathan could not be caught in this manner. The common method of taking the crocodile now is by shooting him; see the notes at Job 41:1. Nothing is more remarkable in the crocodile than the thick and impenetrable skin with which it is covered; and the description here will agree better with this animal than with any other.

   “["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.

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9. 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 9:122 voices

   “Hence the danger of delay in doing the work of God, as one knows not when his opportunity will end (Ec 9:10). evil net--fatal to them. The unexpected suddenness of the capture is the point of comparison. So the second coming of Jesus Christ, "as a snare" (Lu 21:35). evil time--as an "evil net," fatal to them.

   “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.

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10. 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 19:81 voice

    “The fishers also “And the fishers” - There was great plenty of fish in Egypt; see Num 11:5. “The Nile,” says Diodorus, lib. i., “abounds with incredible numbers of all sorts of fish.” And much more the lakes. So Egmont, Pococke, etc.

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11. Isaiah 19:10

    The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the hired workers will be sick at heart.

    ›Commentary on Isaiah 19:101 voice

    “And they shall be broken, etc. “Her stores” - שתתיה shathotheyha, αποθηκαι, granaries. - Aquila. All that make sluices and ponds for fish “All that make a gain of pools for fish” - This obscure line is rendered by different interpreters in very different manners.

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12. 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 47:92 voices

    “The rivers - literally, as in the margin. Perhaps with reference to the circumstance that this “brook or river” is to come into the Dead Sea through the same plain as the Jordan. The one river (Jordan) always flowed, but now, when another river comes in, and “two rivers” flow into the sea, the waters shall be healed.

    “Christ came, that we might have life and for that end he sends his gospel. Every thing shall live whither the river comes. The grace of God makes dead sinners alive and living saints lively; everything is made fruitful and flourishing by it.

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13. 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. …

    “The fishers shall stand upon it - On the above plan of interpretation these must mean - 1. The apostles of our Lord Jesus. 2. The preachers of the everlasting Gospel. See Mat 4:19. From En-gedi - At the southern extremity of the Dead Sea. Unto En-eglaim - At the northern extremity of the same. Their fish shall be according to their kinds - Every kind of fish, and the fish all excellent of their kinds.

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14. 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

    “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.

    “The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness,.... That is, by himself, holiness being his nature, and an essential attribute of his; this is done to ascertain the truth of what is after said, and that men may be assured of the certain performance of it. Some render it, "by his holy place"; and interpret it of heaven; so Aben Ezra and Kimchi; which is not likely; see Mat 5:

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15. 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].

    “Now the Lord had (literally “And the Lord”) prepared - Jonah (as appears from his thanksgiving) was not swallowed at once, but sank to the bottom of the sea, God preserving him in life there by miracle, as he did in the fish’s belly.

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16. Jonah 2:1

    From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God,

    ›Commentary on Jonah 2:11 voice

    “Then - (“And”) Jonah prayed, i. e., when the three days and nights were passed, he uttered this devotion. The word “prayed” includes thanksgiving, not petition only. It is said of Hannah that she “prayed” 1Sa 2:1; but her canticle is all one thanksgiving without a single petition. In this thanksgiving Jonah says how his prayers had been heard, but prays no more. God had delivered him from the sea, and be thanks God, in the fish’s belly, as undisturbed as in a Church or an oratory, secure that God, who had done so much, would fulfill the rest.

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