Nile

Psalms

The Song That Remembers Everything

Psalm 105 is a love song disguised as a history lesson. The psalmist walks through centuries of God's faithfulness — from Abraham's covenant to Joseph's prison cell to the plagues of Egypt to water from a rock — and the whole point is one thing: he never forgot what he promised.

Amos

The Basket That Meant It Was Over

The Nile's rise and fall is invoked as a metaphor for the coming judgment's unstoppable rhythm — just as Egypt's great river inevitably floods and recedes, so God's reckoning will heave and roll across the land.

Deuteronomy

The View from the Mountaintop

The Nile marks the starting point of Moses' story — where his mother hid him in a basket to escape Pharaoh's genocide, making it the origin of the arc that ends on this mountain.

Exodus

The Song on the Other Side

The Nile is cited here as one of Egypt's chief objects of worship, listed as an example of the false gods whose powerlessness was exposed by the plagues — a stark contrast to the Lord who parts seas and drowns armies.

Exodus

The Plagues Keep Coming

God sends three devastating plagues on Egypt — frogs, gnats, and flies — and each time Pharaoh negotiates, makes promises, and then breaks them the moment the pressure lifts. It's one of the most honest pictures of how people deal with God when they're desperate versus when they're comfortable.

Ezekiel

The Dragon in the River

God sends Ezekiel a message for Pharaoh — the self-made king who claimed the Nile as his own creation. What follows is a prophecy of Egypt's humbling, a surprising paycheck for Babylon, and a quiet promise of hope for Israel.

Numbers

The Chapter That Cost Everything

A devastating chapter bookended by two funerals. In between, Moses makes the one mistake that costs him the promised land, Israel gets rejected by their own relatives, and we learn that faithfulness doesn't come with a guarantee of an easy ending.