43 Bible Verses about borders

He endows your territory with prosperity;
He satisfies you with the finest wheat.

You set all the boundaries of the earth;
You made summer and winter.

There is hope for your future—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
and your children will return to their own territory.

Jabez called out to the God of Israel: “If only You would bless me, extend my border, let Your hand be with me, and keep me from harm, so that I will not cause any pain.” And God granted his request.

Your own eyes will see this, and you yourselves will say, ‘The Lord is great, even beyond the borders of Israel.’

Your territory will be from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great Euphrates River—all the land of the Hittites—and west to the Mediterranean Sea.

If the Lord your God enlarges your territory as He swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land He promised to give them—

Violence will never again be heard of in your land;
devastation and destruction
will be gone from your borders.
But you will name your walls salvation
and your gates, praise.

Don’t move an ancient boundary marker
that your fathers set up.

On that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the center of the land of Egypt and a pillar to the Lord near her border.

I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River. For I will place the inhabitants of the land under your control, and you will drive them out ahead of you.

“You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, established at the start in the inheritance you will receive in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

I will give up your wealth
and your treasures as plunder,
without cost, for all your sins
in all your borders.

may there be peace within your walls,
prosperity within your fortresses.”

Then the border will go down to the Jordan and end at the Dead Sea. This will be your land defined by its borders on all sides.”

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance
and divided the human race,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
according to the number of the people of Israel.

You will fall by the sword, and I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing the Ammonites
for three crimes, even four,
because they ripped open
the pregnant women of Gilead
in order to enlarge their territory.

My mountains in the countryside.
I will give up your wealth
and all your treasures as plunder
because of the sin of your high places
in all your borders.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout their generations they are to make tassels for the corners of their garments, and put a blue cord on the tassel at each corner.

Next to the territory of Asher, from the east side to the west, will be Naphtali—one portion.

Your southern side will be from the Wilderness of Zin along the boundary of Edom. Your southern border on the east will begin at the east end of the Dead Sea.

Your realm was in the heart of the sea;
your builders perfected your beauty.

This is what the Lord God says: “This is the border you will use to divide the land as an inheritance for the 12 tribes of Israel. Joseph will receive two shares.

This is the land that remains:

All the districts of the Philistines and the Geshurites:

I will make your fortifications out of rubies,
your gates out of sparkling stones,
and all your walls out of precious stones.

The city will not be a pot for you, and you will not be the meat within it. I will judge you at the border of Israel,

For your eastern border, draw a line from Hazar-enan to Shepham.

“Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these borders:

They will shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword,
the land of Nimrod with a drawn blade.
So He will rescue us from Assyria
when it invades our land,
when it marches against our territory.

and along the borders of the sons of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its villages, Taanach and its villages, Megiddo and its villages, and Dor and its villages. The sons of Joseph son of Israel lived in these towns.

Though Edom says: “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” the Lord of Hosts says this: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called a wicked country and the people the Lord has cursed forever.

Put boundaries for the people all around the mountain and say: Be careful that you don’t go up on the mountain or touch its base. Anyone who touches the mountain will be put to death.

We will make gold jewelry for you,
accented with silver.

Next to the territory of Dan, from the east side to the west, will be Asher—one portion.

A day will come for rebuilding your walls;
on that day your boundary will be extended.

Come against her from the most distant places.
Open her granaries;
pile her up like mounds of grain
and completely destroy her.
Leave her no survivors.

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron at Mount Hor on the border of the land of Edom,

Their border on the north side began at the Jordan, ascended to the slope of Jericho on the north, through the hill country westward, and ended at the wilderness of Beth-aven.