'Places' in the Bible

Then Isaac his father made answer and said to him, Far from the fertile places of the earth, and far from the dew of heaven on high will your living-place be:

And he put the banded sticks in the drinking-places where the flock came to get water; and they became with young when they came to the water.

And whenever the stronger ones of the flock became with young, Jacob put the sticks in front of them in the drinking-places, so that they might become with young when they saw the sticks.

These are the names of the chiefs of Esau in the order of their families and their places: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,

Magdiel, Iram; these are the Edomite chiefs, in their places in their heritage; this is Esau, the father of the Edomites.

A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel.

And the wonder-workers were not able to take their places before Moses, because of the disease; for the disease was on the wonder-workers and on all the Egyptians.

And Moses made the people come out of their tents and take their places before God; and they came to the foot of the mountain,

And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud where God was.

And he said to the chiefs, Keep your places here till we come back to you: Aaron and Hur are with you; if anyone has any cause let him go to them.

And every evening, when he puts the lights up in their places, the spices are to be burned, a sweet-smelling smoke going up before the Lord from generation to generation for ever.

The support for the lights, with the vessels for the lights to be put in their places on it, and all its vessels, and the oil for the lights;

Moses put up the House; placing its bases in position and lifting up its uprights, putting in the rods and planting the pillars in their places;

But he may not go inside the veil or come near the altar, because he is damaged; and he may not make my holy places common; for I the Lord have made them holy.

For seven days you will be living in tents; all those who are Israelites by birth are to make tents their living-places:

So that future generations may keep in mind how I gave the children of Israel tents as their living-places when I took them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.

And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes;

And over them they are to put a red cloth, covering it with a leather cover, and putting its rods in their places.

On the gold altar they are to put a blue cloth, covering it with a leather cover; and they are to put its rods in their places.

Placing on the cloth all its vessels, the fire-baskets, the meat-hooks, the spades, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; they are to put a leather cover over all these, and put its rods in their places.

Say to Aaron, When you put the lights in their places, the seven lights will give light in front of the support.

And Aaron did so; he put the lights in their places so that they gave light in front of the support, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

And he said, Do not go from us; for you will be eyes for us, guiding us to the right places in the waste land to put up our tents.

And what sort of land they are living in, if it is good or bad; and what their living-places are, tent-circles or walled towns;

And Israel took all their towns, living in Heshbon and all the towns and small places of the Amorites.

For a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the town of Sihon: for the destruction of Ar in Moab, and the lords of the high places of the Arnon.

And in the morning Balak took Balaam up to the high places of Baal, and from there he was able to see the outer limits of the people.

Then they came to him, and said, We will make safe places for our cattle here, and towns for our little ones;

So get to work building your towns for your little ones, and safe places for your sheep; and do as you have said.

And Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran: walled towns and shut-in places for sheep.

See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places:

These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts,

And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to give them forty-two towns.

Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight.

Six of the towns which you give will be such safe places;

Three on the other side of Jordan and three in the land of Canaan, to be safe places for flight.

For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six towns are to be safe places, where anyone causing the death of another through error may go in flight.

Make a move now, and go on your way into the hill-country of the Amorites and the places near it, in the Arabah and the hill-country and in the lowlands and in the South and by the seaside, all the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full;

And the Lord will send a hornet among them, till all the rest who have kept themselves safe from you in secret places have been cut off.

You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree:

These are to take their places on Mount Gerizim for blessing the people when you have gone over Jordan: Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin;

He put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the field; honey he gave him out of the rock and oil out of the hard rock;

Happy are you, O Israel: who is like you, a people whose saviour is the Lord, whose help is your cover, whose sword is your strength! All those who are against you will put themselves under your rule, and your feet will be planted on their high places.

Giving the people their orders, and saying, When you see the ark of the agreement of the Lord your God lifted up by the priests, the Levites, then get up from your places and go after it;

And the priests who took up the ark of the agreement of the Lord kept their places, with their feet on dry land in the middle of Jordan, while all Israel went over on dry land, till all the nation had gone over Jordan.

So all the people were in their places, the army on the north side of the town and the secret force on the west; and that night Joshua went down into the valley.

And all Israel, those who were Israelites by birth, as well as the men from other lands living with them, and their responsible men and their overseers and judges, took their places round the ark, in front of the priests, the Levites, whose work it was to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement; half of them were stationed in front of Mount Gerizim and half in front of Mount Ebal, in agreement with the orders for the blessing of the children of Israel which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had given.

And the limit of the children of Reuben was the edge of Jordan. This was the heritage of the children of Reuben by their families, with its towns and its unwalled places.

This is the heritage of the children of Gad by their families, with its towns and its unwalled places

Because the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave the Levites no part in the land, only towns for their living-places, with the grass-lands for their cattle and for their property.

And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon; all the towns are twenty-nine, with their unwalled places.

And Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen towns with their unwalled places.

And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen towns with their unwalled places.

And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine towns with their unwalled places.

Ekron, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places;

From Ekron to the sea, all the towns by the side of Ashdod, with their unwalled places.

Ashdod, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places; Gaza, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places, to the stream of Egypt, with the Great Sea as a limit.

And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven towns with their unwalled places.

And Humtah, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron), and Zior; nine towns with their unwalled places.

Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten towns with their unwalled places.

And Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six towns with their unwalled places.

Kiriath-baal (which is Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah; two towns with their unwalled places.

And Nibshan, and the Town of Salt, and En-gedi; six towns with their unwalled places.

Together with the towns marked out for the children of Ephraim in the heritage of Manasseh, all the towns with their unwalled places.

And Chephar-Ammoni and Ophni and Geba; twelve towns with their unwalled places;

And Zela, Eleph and the Jebusite (which is Jerusalem), Gibeath and Kiriath; fourteen towns with their unwalled places. This is the heritage of the children of Benjamin by their families.

And Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen; thirteen towns with their unwalled places;

Ain, Rimmon, and Ether and Ashan; four towns with their unwalled places;

And all the unwalled places round about these towns as far as Baalath-beer-ramah to the south. This is the heritage of the tribe of Simeon by their families.

And Kattath and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Beth-lehem; twelve towns with their unwalled places.

This is the heritage of the children of Zebulun by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

And their limit goes as far as Tabor and Shahazimah and Beth-shemesh, ending at Jordan; sixteen towns with their unwalled places.

This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Issachar by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

And Ummah and Aphek and Rehob; twenty-two towns with their unwalled places.

This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Asher by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

And Iron and Migdal-el, Horem and Beth-anath and Beth-shemesh; nineteen towns with their unwalled places.

This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Naphtali by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Dan by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

Say to the children of Israel, Let certain towns be marked out as safe places, as I said to you by the mouth of Moses,

So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood.

But the open country round the town, and its unwalled places, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, as his property.

And he said to them, Come after me; for the Lord has given the Moabites, your haters, into your hands. So they went down after him and took the crossing-places of Jordan against Moab, and let no one go across.

It was the people of Zebulun who put their lives in danger, even to death, with Naphtali on the high places of the field.

And Midian was stronger than Israel; and because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made holes for themselves in the mountains, and hollows in the rocks, and strong places.

And the Gileadites took the crossing-places of Jordan against the Ephraimites; and when any of the men of Ephraim who had gone in flight said, let me go over; the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? And if he said, No;

Then they said to him, Now say Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth, and was not able to say it in the right way; then they took him and put him to death at the crossing-places of Jordan; and at that time forty-two thousand Ephraimites were put to death.

He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters whom he sent to other places, and he got thirty wives from other places for his sons. And he was judge of Israel for seven years.

And the six hundred armed men of the Danites took their places by the doorway.

And he said to his servant, Come, let us go on to one of these places, stopping for the night in Gibeah or Ramah.

And the chiefs of the people, out of all the tribes of Israel, took their places in the meeting of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen armed with swords.

Then it will be that the rest of your family, anyone who has not been cut off, will go down on his knees to him for a bit of silver or a bit of bread, and say, Be pleased to put me into one of the priest's places so that I may have a little food.

And the gold mice, one for every town of the Philistines, the property of the five lords, walled towns as well as country places: and the great stone where they put the ark of the Lord is still in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite to this day.

From year to year he went in turn to Beth-el and Gilgal and Mizpah, judging Israel in all those places.

But today you are turned away from your God, who himself has been your saviour from all your troubles and sorrows; and you have said to him, Put a king over us. So now, take your places before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.

Keep your places now, while I take up the argument with you before the Lord, and give you the story of the righteousness of the Lord, which he has made clear by his acts to you and to your fathers.

If they say to us, Keep quiet where you are till we come to you; then we will keep our places and not go up to them.

And news was given to Saul that David had been seen, and the men who were with him: now Saul was in Gibeah, seated under the tree in the high place, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were in their places before him.

And David kept in the waste land, in safe places, waiting in the hill-country in the waste land of Ziph. And Saul was searching for him every day, but God did not give him up into his hands