The term "wide-stretching" is not directly found in the Berean Standard Bible but can be understood through the context of biblical passages that describe the vastness and expansiveness of God's creation, His promises, and His influence. This concept is often associated with the grandeur and majesty of God's works and His ability to encompass all things.

Creation and Nature

The Bible frequently uses imagery of vastness to describe God's creation. In Genesis 1, the creation narrative illustrates the wide-stretching expanse of the heavens and the earth. Psalm 19:1 declares, "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands." This verse highlights the expansive nature of the heavens as a testament to God's glory and creative power.

Isaiah 40:22 further emphasizes this idea: "He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in." Here, the imagery of God stretching out the heavens like a curtain underscores His sovereignty and the vastness of His creation.

God's Promises and Influence

The concept of wide-stretching is also applicable to the promises and influence of God. In Genesis 15:5 , God promises Abraham, "Look now at the heavens and count the stars, if you are able. Then He told him, 'So shall your offspring be.'" This promise of innumerable descendants reflects the wide-stretching nature of God's covenant with Abraham, extending beyond human comprehension.

Similarly, in Isaiah 54:2-3 , the expansion of God's people is depicted: "Enlarge the site of your tent, stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back; lengthen your ropes and drive your stakes deep. For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess the nations and inhabit the desolate cities." This passage uses the metaphor of a tent being stretched to illustrate the growth and influence of God's people.

Divine Wisdom and Knowledge

The wide-stretching nature of God's wisdom and knowledge is another theme found in Scripture. In Job 11:7-9 , Zophar challenges Job, "Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty? They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know? Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea." This passage underscores the immeasurable and expansive nature of God's wisdom, which surpasses human understanding.

Spiritual Implications

The wide-stretching concept also has spiritual implications for believers. In Ephesians 3:17-19 , Paul prays for the Ephesians, "so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love, will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God." The dimensions of Christ's love are described in terms that suggest vastness and boundlessness, encouraging believers to grasp the wide-stretching nature of divine love.

In summary, while the term "wide-stretching" itself may not appear in the biblical text, the concept is richly woven throughout Scripture, illustrating the vastness of God's creation, promises, wisdom, and love. These themes invite believers to recognize and appreciate the boundless nature of God's presence and work in the world.

Hesiod; the Nine Muses; the Hesiodic Cosmogony; the Ancient ...
... Chaos, no doubt, the very first, arose; but next. Wide-stretching Earth, ever the
throne secure of all. Immortals, who hold the peaks of white Olympus; ...
/.../the refutation of all heresies/chapter xxiii hesiod the nine muses.htm

September the Fifth Faith and Ridicule
... That healing flood is like the ocean fulness, and it will fill every bay, and
cove, and creek in the wide-stretching shore of human need. ...
/.../my daily meditation for the circling year/september the fifth faith and.htm

June the First the Beauty of Variety
... loveliness. There are mountains, and sea, and grassland, and trees, and
a wide-stretching sky, and white pebbles at my feet. And ...
/.../jowett/my daily meditation for the circling year/june the first the beauty.htm

Asa's Prayer
... are so feeble as well as few that they have more than enough to do in holding their
own, to say nothing of dreaming of charging the wide-stretching lines of ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/asas prayer.htm

Of the Ordering of all the virtues through the Seven Gifts of the ...
... For this gift, through the knowledge of truth which is imparted to us in its light,
establishes in us a wide-stretching love toward all in common. ...
/.../john/the adornment of the spritual marriage/chapter lxiii of the ordering.htm

Peace and victory
... The man who goes into the battle as that little army of the Hebrews did against
the wide-stretching hosts of the enemy, saying, 'O Lord! ...
/.../expositions of holy scripture st john chaps xv to xxi/peace and victory.htm

Letter cviii. To Eustochium.
... [2865] In the distance she beheld the range of Hermon; [2866] and the wide stretching
plains of Galilee where Sisera and all his host had once been overcome by ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter cviii to eustochium.htm

Wide-stretching (3 Occurrences)
Wide-stretching. Widespread, Wide-stretching. Widow . Multi-Version
Concordance Wide-stretching (3 Occurrences). Psalms ...
/w/wide-stretching.htm - 7k

Knives (12 Occurrences)
... the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches
with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches. ...
/k/knives.htm - 10k

Unnumbered (9 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Psalms 72:16 May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking
on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be ...
/u/unnumbered.htm - 9k

Widespread (2 Occurrences)

/w/widespread.htm - 7k

Stems (31 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Psalms 72:16 May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking
on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be ...
/s/stems.htm - 15k

Tall (41 Occurrences)
... (BBE NIV). Psalms 92:12 The good man will be like a tall tree in his strength; his
growth will be as the wide-stretching trees of Lebanon. (BBE). ...
/t/tall.htm - 19k

Hew (17 Occurrences)
... the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches
with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches. ...
/h/hew.htm - 12k

Widow (71 Occurrences)

/w/widow.htm - 31k

Growth (77 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Psalms 92:12 The good man will be like a tall tree in his strength; his
growth will be as the wide-stretching trees of Lebanon. (BBE). ...
/g/growth.htm - 29k

Grapes (74 Occurrences)
... the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches
with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches. ...
/g/grapes.htm - 31k

Why did God make salvation such a narrow path? | GotQuestions.org

Will more people go to heaven or to hell? | GotQuestions.org

Who was John Calvin? | GotQuestions.org

Bible Concordance • Bible Dictionary • Bible Encyclopedia • Topical Bible • Bible Thesuarus