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20 Bible Verses About the Beach

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  • Jeremiah 5:22 and Job 38:8-11 describe a limit God set for the sea: “Thus far shall you come, and no farther.”
  • Sand on the seashore measures Abraham’s offspring (Genesis 22:17; Hebrews 11:12), Solomon’s breadth of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and God’s thoughts (Psalm 139:18).
  • Isaiah 10:22, quoted by Paul in Romans 9:27, says that of a people as many as the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return.
  • Jesus called Simon and Andrew beside the Sea of Galilee, and after his resurrection stood on its shore at daybreak with fish and bread on a charcoal fire (John 21:4-9).
  • In Acts 21:5 the disciples at Tyre, with their wives and children, knelt on the beach to pray before Paul sailed.

In the Bible the beach is a boundary, the place where the sea is told to stop. Jeremiah 5:22 says the Lord “placed the sand as the boundary for the sea.” The sand on the seashore also measures what cannot be counted, such as Abraham’s offspring (Genesis 22:17). Several Gospel scenes take place on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. Jesus calls Simon and Andrew there (Matthew 4:18-19), teaches a crowd standing on the beach (Matthew 13:2), and after…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

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