Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Cistern’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.
The term ‘Cistern’ occurs 23 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.
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Bible passages with ‘Cistern’ in the book Genesis
Genesis 37:20 Come, let us kill him and cast him into the old cistern. And let us say: ‘an evil wild beast has devoured him.’ And then it will become apparent what his dreams will do for him.”Genesis 37:20
Genesis 37:22 “Do not take away his life, nor shed blood. But throw him into this cistern, which is in the wilderness, and so keep your hands harmless.” But he said this, wanting to rescue him from their hands, so as to return him to his father.Genesis 37:22
Genesis 37:24 and they cast him into an old cistern, which held no water.Genesis 37:24
Genesis 37:28 And when the Midianite merchants were passing by, they drew him from the cistern, and they sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And these led him into Egypt.Genesis 37:28
Genesis 37:29 And Reuben, returning to the cistern, did not find the boy.Genesis 37:29
Number of the word / term Cistern in Genesis: 5
Bible passages with ‘Cistern’ in the book Exodus
Exodus 21:33 If a man digs or opens a cistern, and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,Exodus 21:33
Exodus 21:34 then the owner of the cistern shall repay the price of the beasts, and what is dead will belong to him.Exodus 21:34
Number of the word / term Cistern in Exodus: 2
Bible passages with ‘Cistern’ in the book Leviticus
Leviticus 11:36 Yet truly, fountains and cisterns, and all reservoirs of water shall be clean. Whoever will have touched their carcasses shall be defiled.Leviticus 11:36
Number of the word / term Cistern in Leviticus: 1
Bible passages with ‘Cistern’ in the book Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 6:11 houses full of goods, which you did not amass; cisterns, which you did not dig; vineyards and olive groves, which you did not plant;Deuteronomy 6:11
Number of the word / term Cistern in Deuteronomy: 1
Bible passages with ‘Cistern’ in the book 1 Samuel
1 Samuel 19:22 also went to Ramah himself. And he went as far as the great cistern, which is in Socoh. And he inquired and said, “In which place are Samuel and David?” And it was told to him, “Behold, they are at Naioth, in Ramah.”1 Samuel 19:22
Number of the word / term Cistern in 1 Samuel: 1
Bible passages with ‘Cistern’ in the book 2 Samuel
2 Samuel 3:26 And so, Joab, going out from David, sent messengers after Abner, and he brought him back from the cistern of Sirah, without David knowing.2 Samuel 3:26
2 Samuel 23:15 Then David desired, and he said, “If only someone would give me a drink of the water from the cistern, which is in Bethlehem beside the gate!”2 Samuel 23:15
2 Samuel 23:16 Therefore, the three valiant men burst into the encampment of the Philistines, and they drew water from the cistern of Bethlehem, which was beside the gate. And they brought it to David. Yet he was not willing to drink; instead, he poured it out to the Lord,2 Samuel 23:16
Number of the word / term Cistern in 2 Samuel: 3
Bible passages with ‘Cistern’ in the book 2 Kings
2 Kings 10:14 And he said, “Take them alive.” And when they had taken them alive, they cut their throats at the cistern beside the cabin, forty-two men. And he did not leave any of them behind.2 Kings 10:14
Number of the word / term Cistern in 2 Kings: 1
Bible passages with ‘Cistern’ in the book 2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles 26:10 Then he also constructed towers in the wilderness, and dug many cisterns, because he had much cattle, both in the plains and in the starkness of the wilderness. Also, he had vineyards and dressers of vines in the mountains and at Carmel. Certainly, he was a man devoted to agriculture.2 Chronicles 26:10
Number of the word / term Cistern in 2 Chronicles: 1
Bible passages with ‘Cistern’ in the book Nehemiah
Nehemiah 9:25 And so they seized fortified cities and fat soil. And they possessed houses filled with all kinds of goods, cisterns made by others, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. And they ate and were satisfied. And they were fattened, and they abounded with delights from your great goodness.Nehemiah 9:25
Number of the word / term Cistern in Nehemiah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Cistern’ in the book Proverbs
Proverbs 5:15 Drink water from your own cistern and from the springs of your own well.Proverbs 5:15
Number of the word / term Cistern in Proverbs: 1
Bible passages with ‘Cistern’ in the book Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes 12:6 Before the silver cord is broken, and the golden band pulls away, and the pitcher is crushed over the fountain, and the wheel is broken above the cistern,Ecclesiastes 12:6
Number of the word / term Cistern in Ecclesiastes: 1
Bible passages with ‘Cistern’ in the book Jeremiah
Jeremiah 2:13 For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the Fountain of living water, and they have dug for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that are unable to hold water.Jeremiah 2:13
Jeremiah 6:7 Just as a cistern makes its water cold, so has she made her wickedness cold. Iniquity and devastation will be heard in her; sickness and wounds will be ever before me.Jeremiah 6:7
Jeremiah 39:10 And Nebuzaradan, the leader of the military, released some of the poor people, those who had almost nothing, into the land of Judah. And he gave them vineyards and cisterns in that day.Jeremiah 39:10
Jeremiah 41:7 And when they had arrived at the center of the city, Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, put them to death around the public cistern, he and the men who were with him.Jeremiah 41:7
Jeremiah 41:9 Now the cistern, into which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had struck down because of Gedaliah, is the same one that king Asa made out of fear of Baasha, the king of Israel. This same cistern Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, filled with those who were slain.Jeremiah 41:9
Number of the word / term ‘Cistern’ in Jeremiah: 5
These texts are taken from the following version: Catholic Public Domain Version.
Number of Bible Verses found on the topic: 23
