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Fishes

Created by God—Ge 1:20,21; Ex 20:11

Made for God's glory—Job 12:8,9; Ps 69:34

INHABIT

• Seas
• —Nu 11:22; Eze 47:10
• Rivers
• —Ex 7:18; Eze 29:5
• Ponds
• —So 7:4; Isa 19:10

Number and variety of—Ps 104:25

Different in flesh from beasts &c—1Co 15:39

Cannot live without water—Isa 50:2

Man given dominion over—Ge 1:26,28; Ps 8:8

Man permitted to eat—Ge 9:2,3

USED AS FOOD

• By the Egyptians
• —Nu 11:5
• By the Jews
• —Mt 7:10

Mode of cooking alluded to—Lu 24:42; Joh 21:9

The people of Tyre traded in—Ne 13:16

Sold near the fish gate at Jerusalem—2Ch 33:14; Zep 1:10

Distinction between clean and unclean—Le 11:9-12; De 14:9,10

MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE

• Leviathan
• —Job 41:1; Ps 74:14
• Whale
• —Ge 1:21; Mt 12:40

Solomon wrote the history of—1Ki 4:33

No likeness of, to be made for worship—Ex 20:4; De 4:18

Catching of, a trade—Mt 4:18; Lu 5:2

TAKEN WITH

• Nets
• —Lu 5:4-6; Joh 21:6-8
• Hooks
• —Am 4:2; Mt 17:27
• Spears
• —Job 41:7
• Often suffered for man's sin
• —Ex 7:21; Eze 38:20

MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH

• Multiplying a few
• —Mt 14:17-21; 15:34
• Immense draughts of
• —Lu 5:6,9; Joh 21:6,11
• Procuring tribute money from
• —Mt 17:27
• Dressed on the shore
• —Joh 21:9

ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of the whole population of Egypt
• —Eze 29:4,5
• Of the visible church
• —Mt 13:48
• Of men ignorant of future events
• —Ec 9:12
• Of those ensnared by the wicked
• —Hab 1:14
• (Good,) of saints
• —Mt 13:48,49
• (Bad,) of mere professors
• —Mt 13:48,49