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Brook
Disambiguation
The source enumerates 3 distinct subjects under Brook. Jump to one below, or read in order.
A torrent.
Brook (1)
#Applied to small streams, as the Arnon, Jabbok, etc. Isaiah (15:7) speaks of the “book of the willows,” probably the Wady-el-Asha.
Brook (2)
#It is also applied to winter torrents (Job 6:15; Num. 34:5; Josh. 15:4, 47), and to the torrent-bed or wady as well as to the torrent itself (Num. 13:23; 1 Kings 17:3).
Brook (3)
#In Isa. 19:7 the river Nile is meant, as rendered in the Revised Version.
In the Bible
49
Verses where Brook is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
- 1 Kings 2:37
On the day you go out and cross the Kidron Valley, know for sure that you will die; your blood will be on your own head.”
- 1 Kings 8:65
So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more days—fourteen days in all.
- 1 Kings 15:13
He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
- 1 Kings 17:3
“Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.
- 1 Kings 17:4
And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
- 1 Kings 17:5
So Elijah did what the LORD had told him, and he went and lived by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.
+43 more verses naming Brook.
Scripture on Brook
40
See all 40 +−
- Deuteronomy 22 Kings 23Job 6Genesis 32Leviticus 23Deuteronomy 9Joshua 16Joshua 17Joshua 191 Samuel 172 Samuel 152 Samuel 171 Kings 21 Kings 81 Kings 151 Kings 182 Kings 242 Chronicles 72 Chronicles 152 Chronicles 202 Chronicles 292 Chronicles 302 Chronicles 32Nehemiah 2Job 40Psalms 83Psalms 110Proverbs 18Isaiah 15Isaiah 19Jeremiah 31Ezekiel 47Ezekiel 48Amos 6John 18
Voices on Brook
22
Surfaced by name match — accuracy varies by title clarity.
Sources · Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
Public-domain text. Modernized only where archaic spelling impedes reading; original facts preserved. Verify against an authoritative modern reference before quoting.