Sea

He set five stands on the south side of the temple and five on the north, and he put the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner of the temple.

…the Sea; the twelve oxen underneath the Sea;

…the Sea; the twelve oxen underneath the Sea;

King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.

And Hiram sent his servants, sailors who knew the sea, to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s servants.

For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

“Go and look toward the sea,” he said to his servant. So the servant went and looked, and he said, “There is nothing there.” Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”

On the seventh time the servant reported, “There is a cloud as small as a man’s hand rising from the sea.” And Elijah replied, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”

This Jeroboam restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word that the LORD, the God of Israel, had spoken through His servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.

King Ahaz also cut off the frames of the movable stands and removed the bronze basin from each of them. He took down the Sea from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone base.

Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried the bronze to Babylon.

As for the two pillars, the Sea, and the movable stands that Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.

Let the sea resound, and all that fills it; let the fields exult, and all that is in them.

And from Tibhath and Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took a large amount of bronze, with which Solomon made the bronze Sea, the pillars, and various bronze articles.

We will cut logs from Lebanon, as many as you need, and we will float them to you as rafts by sea down to Joppa. Then you can take them up to Jerusalem.”

He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.

Below the rim, figures of oxen encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.

Below the rim, figures of oxen encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.

The Sea stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center.

The Sea stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center.

He also made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. The parts of the burnt offering were rinsed in them, but the priests used the Sea for washing.

He put the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner.

…the Sea; the twelve oxen underneath the Sea;

…the Sea; the twelve oxen underneath the Sea;

Then some men came and told Jehoshaphat, “A vast army is coming against you from Edom, from beyond the Sea; they are already in Hazazon-tamar” (that is, En-gedi).

They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.

You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt; You heard their cry at the Red Sea.

You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.

Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard?

He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.

Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.

Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.

As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,

By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.

The ocean depths say, ‘It is not in me,’ while the sea declares, ‘It is not with me.’

See how He scatters His lightning around Him and covers the depths of the sea.

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?

He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

…the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.

He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.

Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the waters on foot; there we rejoiced in Him.

The Lord said, “I will retrieve them from Bashan, I will bring them up from the depths of the sea,

May he rule from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.

May he rule from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.

You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;

You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;

Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.

He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.

He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.

He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.

It sent out its branches to the Sea, and its shoots toward the River.

You rule the raging sea; when its waves mount up, You still them.

I will set his hand over the sea, and his right hand upon the rivers.

Above the roar of many waters—the mighty breakers of the sea—the LORD on high is majestic.

The sea is His, for He made it, and His hands formed the dry land.

Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea resound, and all that fills it.

Let the sea resound, and all that fills it, the world, and all who dwell in it.

Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.

Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.

Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.

He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.

…wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

Others went out to sea in ships, conducting trade on the mighty waters.

For He spoke and raised a tempest that lifted the waves of the sea.

He calmed the storm to a whisper, and the waves of the sea were hushed.

The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,

He divided the Red Sea in two His loving devotion endures forever.

…but swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea. His loving devotion endures forever.

If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,

…the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever.

Praise the LORD from the earth, all great sea creatures and ocean depths,

…when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.

…the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship at sea, and the way of a man with a maiden.

All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place from which the streams come, there again they flow.

All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place from which the streams come, there again they flow.

In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.

Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:

Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

And the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against them, as when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will raise His staff over the sea, as He did in Egypt.

They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.

On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

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.

For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.

…which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.

This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.

Be silent, O dwellers of the coastland, you merchants of Sidon, whose traders have crossed the sea.

Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”

Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”

The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.

Therefore glorify the LORD in the east. Extol the name of the LORD, the God of Israel in the islands of the sea.

In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.

Sing to the LORD a new song—His praise from the ends of the earth—you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who dwell in them.

Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the surging waters,

…who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’

If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.

Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.