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Their settlements extended from Mesha to Sephar, the eastern hill country.
From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to Yahweh there, and he called on the name of Yahweh.
He fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for
When Laban overtook Jacob, Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his brothers also pitched their tents in the hill country of Gilead.
When Moses sent them to scout out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up this way to the Negev, then go up into the hill country.
The Amalekites
They got up early the next morning and went up the ridge of the hill country, saying, “Let’s go to the place the Lord promised, for we were wrong.”
But they dared to go up the ridge of the hill country, even though the ark of the Lord’s covenant and Moses did not leave the camp.
Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that part of the hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them as far as Hormah.
Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites and their neighbors in the Arabah, the hill country, the Judean foothills,
“We then set out from Horeb and went across all the great and terrible wilderness you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, just as the Lord our God had commanded us. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,
I said to you: You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us.
They left and went up into the hill country and came to the Valley of Eshcol, scouting the land.
“You answered me, ‘We have sinned against the Lord. We will go up and fight just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ Then each of you put on his weapons of war and thought it would be easy to go up into the hill country.
So I spoke to you, but you didn’t listen. You rebelled against the Lord’s command and defiantly went up into the hill country.
“Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea, as the Lord had told me, and we traveled around the hill country of Seir for many days.
‘You’ve been traveling around this hill country long enough; turn north.
Don’t fight with them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even an inch of it,
But you did not go near the Ammonites’ land, all along the bank of the Jabbok River,
“At that time we took possession of this land.
Please let me cross over and see the beautiful land
“Go to the hill country so that the men pursuing you won’t find you,” she said to them. “Hide yourselves there for three days until they return; afterward, go on your way.”
So the two men went into the hill country and stayed there three days until the pursuers had returned. They searched all along the way, but did not find them.
Then the men returned, came down from the hill country, and crossed the Jordan. They went to Joshua son of Nun and reported everything that had happened to them.
When all the kings heard about Jericho and Ai, those who were west of the Jordan in the hill country,
Then the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal: “Don’t abandon
So Joshua conquered the whole region—the hill country, the Negev, the Judean foothills,
the Arabah south of Chinnereth,
the Judean foothills,
and the Slopes of Dor
the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites,
and Jebusites in the hill country,
and the Hivites at the foot of Hermon
in the land of Mizpah.
So Joshua took all this land—the hill country, all the Negev, all the land of Goshen,
At that time Joshua proceeded to exterminate the Anakim
the hill country, the Judean foothills,
all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim,
I will drive them out before the Israelites, only distribute the land as an inheritance for Israel, as I have commanded you.
Now give me this hill country the Lord promised me on that day, because you heard then that the Anakim are there, as well as large fortified cities.
The allotment for the descendants of Joseph
“If you have so many people,” Joshua replied to them, “go to the forest and clear an area for yourselves there in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, because Ephraim’s hill country is too small for you.”
But the descendants of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who inhabit the valley area have iron chariots, both at Beth-shean with its towns and in the Jezreel Valley.”
because the hill country will be yours also. It is a forest; clear it and its outlying areas will be yours. You can also drive out the Canaanites, even though they have iron chariots and are strong.”
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.
By the Lord’s command, they gave him the city Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim,
So they designated Kedesh in the hill country of Naphtali in Galilee,
They gave them Kiriath-arba
The Israelites gave them:
Shechem,
and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau.
They buried him in his allotted territory at Timnath-serah, in the hill country of Ephraim
And Eleazar son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah,
Afterward, the men of Judah marched down to fight against the Canaanites who were living in the hill country, the Negev, and the Judean foothills.
The Lord was with
The Amorites
They buried him in the territory of his inheritance, in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim,
After he arrived, he sounded the ram’s horn throughout the hill country of Ephraim. The Israelites came down with him from the hill country, and he became their leader.
It was her custom to sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her for judgment.
Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim with this message: “Come down to intercept the Midianites and take control of the watercourses ahead of them as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan.” So all the men of Ephraim
After Abimelech, Tola son of Puah, son of Dodo became judge and began to deliver Israel. He was from Issachar and lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.
and when he died, he was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.
The man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah to settle wherever he could find a place. On his way he came to Micah’s home in the hill country of Ephraim.
So the Danites sent out five brave men
They came to the hill country of Ephraim as far as the home of Micah and spent the night there.
From there they traveled to the hill country of Ephraim and arrived at Micah’s house.
In those days, when there was no king in Israel,
In the evening, an old man came in from his work in the field. He was from the hill country of Ephraim
He answered him, “We’re traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote hill country of Ephraim, where I am from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and now I’m going to the house of the Lord.
There was a man from Ramathaim-zophim
Saul and his attendant went through the hill country of Ephraim
He chose 3,000 men from Israel for himself: 2,000 were with Saul at Michmash
When all the Israelite men who had been hiding in the hill country of Ephraim
David then stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph.
That is not my intention. There is a man named Sheba son of Bichri, from the hill country of Ephraim, who has rebelled against King David. Deliver this one man, and I will withdraw from the city.”
The woman replied to Joab, “All right. His head will be thrown over the wall to you.”
Jeroboam built Shechem
Now the king of Aram’s servants said to him, “Their gods are gods of the hill country.
Gehazi said, “It’s all right.
Shechem (a city of refuge) with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer and its pasturelands,
Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim,
When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim.
Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and once again he went out among the people from Beer-sheba to the hill country of Ephraim and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.
He also built cities in the hill country of Judah and fortresses and towers in the forests.
So they proclaimed and spread this news throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make booths, just as it is written.”
Then people will come from the cities of Judah and from the area around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin and from the Judean foothills, from the hill country and from the Negev
in the hill country of Ephraim,
“Get up, let’s go up to Zion,
to Yahweh our God!”
Fields will be purchased with silver, the transaction written on a scroll and sealed,
This is the Lord’s declaration.
The flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them
and he will feed on Carmel and Bashan;
he will be satisfied
in the hill country of Ephraim and of Gilead.
this is the Lord’s declaration—
will I not eliminate the wise ones of Edom
and those who understand
from the hill country of Esau?
so that everyone from the hill country of Esau
will be destroyed by slaughter.
the hill country of Esau;
those from the Judean foothills will possess
the land of the Philistines.
They
the territories of Ephraim and Samaria,
while Benjamin will possess Gilead.