. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . abounded in fish, and the fail-ure of this source of food by the judgmentwhich turned the waters into blood, and de-stroyed life therein,2 must have been griev-ously felt by the Egyptians. We may notunreasonably suppose that there was a reg-ular fish-market at Jerusalem, as we find oneof the city gates denominated the fish were bred in ponds and reser-voirs has not been conclusively proved. The fish
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . abounded in fish, and the fail-ure of this source of food by the judgmentwhich turned the waters into blood, and de-stroyed life therein,2 must have been griev-ously felt by the Egyptians. We may notunreasonably suppose that there was a reg-ular fish-market at Jerusalem, as we find oneof the city gates denominated the fish were bred in ponds and reser-voirs has not been conclusively proved. The fish-pools of Heshbon were, so far as theoriginal of the passage informs us. simply pools, aud the reference in the passage inIsaiah is not very In the X. T. thereis mention of fish as readily procured audconstantly eaten. The curing of them bysalting was unquestionably known. Thereis mention of fish brought up from Tyre toJerusalem. These could hardly have beencarried such a distance without being pre- 1 Gen. i., 20-2(5; Lev. xi., 0-12.—3 Numb, xi., 5; , 10-21.—» Neh. iii., 3; xii., 30.—« Isa. xix., 8-10;Zeph. i., 10. FISH, FISHING 351 FISH, FISHING. Fishing Scene. a. The boat with the fish hangins up to dry in the pun and wind; on the top of the mast sits a kite. Themanner in which it shrieks, while waiting for the entrails of the fish, as they are thrown out, is very char-acteristically shown in the original painting. The boat, is supposed to be close to the shelving bank towhich they are dragging the net. The water is represented by zigzag lines at b, which, to prevent confusion,have not been continued over the net. served by salt. The fishes, too, which the dis-ciples on two occasions brought to our Lord,when he was about to feed the multitudes,were probably little fishes which had beensalted and dried in the sun, and were eatenwith bread just as we eat cheese or most common method of fishing wasby nets, various kinds of hand and casting-ne
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