here are 30 Bible verses about rivers:
- Psalm 46:4:
“There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.”
- Genesis 2:10:
“A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers.”
- Isaiah 33:21:
“But there the Lord in majesty will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams, where no galley with oars can go, nor majestic ship can pass.”
- Ezekiel 47:9:
“And wherever the river goes, every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish. For this water goes there, that the waters of the sea may become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes.”
- Joshua 3:15-16:
“And as soon as those bearing the ark had come as far as the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (now the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest), the waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho.”
- Revelation 22:1:
“Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb.”
- Isaiah 43:19:
“Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”
- Isaiah 66:12:
“For thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip, and bounced upon her knees.’”
- Psalm 65:9:
“You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prepared it.”
- Jeremiah 17:8:
“He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”
- Joshua 3:13:
“And when the soles of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off from flowing, and the waters coming down from above shall stand in one heap.”
- Psalm 36:8-9:
“They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights. For with you is the fountain of life; in your light do we see light.”
- Ezekiel 47:12:
“And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither, nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.”
- Psalm 78:16:
“He made streams come out of the rock and caused waters to flow down like rivers.”
- 2 Samuel 22:16:
“Then the channels of the sea were seen; the foundations of the world were laid bare, at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.”
- Genesis 41:1:
“After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile,”
- Amos 5:24:
“But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.”
- Psalm 78:44:
“He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.”
- Isaiah 8:7:
“Therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks,”
- 1 Kings 17:3:
“‘Depart from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.”
- Psalm 74:15:
“You split open springs and brooks; you dried up ever-flowing streams.”
- Isaiah 8:6:
“Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice over Rezin and the son of Remaliah,”
- Revelation 16:12:
“The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east.”
- Ezekiel 1:1:
“In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the Chebar canal, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.”
- Isaiah 7:20:
“In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired beyond the River—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.”
- Joshua 3:8:
“And as for you, command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, ‘When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.’”
- Daniel 12:5-6:
“Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, one on this bank of the stream and one on that bank of the stream. And someone said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, ‘How long shall it be till the end of these wonders?’”
- Ezekiel 47:7:
“As I went back, I saw on the bank of the river very many trees on the one side and on the other.”
- Amos 8:8:
“Shall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who dwells in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”
- Exodus 7:20:
“Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded. In the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants he lifted up the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the water in the Nile turned into blood.”
These verses depict various contexts in which rivers are mentioned in the Bible, symbolizing life, abundance, judgment, and divine intervention.
