43 Bible Verses about borders
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He is the one who brings peace to your borders and satisfies your hunger with the finest wheat.
Your future is filled with hope,' says Jehovah. 'Your children will return to their own territory.'
Jabez cried out to the God of Israel: Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain. And God granted his request.
The people of Israel will see this with their own eyes. They will say: Jehovah is mighty even outside the land of Israel!
From the wilderness and nearby Lebanon even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun (to the west), shall be your coast.
If Jehovah your God enlarges your territory, just as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land he promised to give your fathers.
You will no longer hear about violence in your land or desolation and destruction within your borders. You will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.
When that time comes, there will be an altar to Jehovah in the middle of the land of Egypt and a stone pillar dedicated to him at the Egyptian border.
I will make the borders of your land extend from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Mediterranean Sea and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give you power over the inhabitants of the land. You will drive them out as you advance.
Do not move your neighbor's boundary mark. The ancestors have set this in your inheritance. You will inherit this in the land Jehovah your God gives you to possess.
Jehovah said to me: 'I will send enemies to carry away the wealth and treasures of my people. This will punish them for the sins they have committed throughout the land.
then south along the Jordan River to the Dead Sea. These will be the four borders of your land.
When the Most High gave nations their inheritance, when he divided the descendants of Adam, he set up borders for the tribes corresponding to the number of the sons of Israel.
You will be killed in battle in your own country. I will judge you on the border of Israel. Then everyone will know that I am Jehovah.
Jehovah also said: For the many transgressions of the children of Ammon I will not withdraw the punishment. They have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border.
and on mountains in the open country. I will turn your wealth and all your treasures into loot. I will do this because of your worship sites and your sin throughout all your territory.
Speak to the Israelites and tell them: For generations to come they must wear tassels on the corners of their clothes. Each tassel should have violet threads.
Naphtali will have one part of the land and border Asher on the south. It will extend from the eastern border to the western border.
The southern border will extend from the wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. It will begin on the east at the southern end of the Dead Sea.
Your borders are in the heart of the seas. Your builders have perfected your beauty.
This is what the Lord Jehovah says: These are the borders of the land that is to be divided among the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph gets two parts.
I will make your battlements of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.
This city will not protect you the way a cooking pot protects the meat in it. I will punish you wherever you may be in the land of Israel.
the following instructions for the people of Israel: When you enter Canaan, the land I am giving you, these are the borders of your territory.
They will rule the land of Assyria and the entrances to the land of Nimrod with the sword. When he comes to our land and treads inside our borders he will deliver us from the Assyrian.
Along the borders of Manasseh were Beth Shan, Taanach, Megiddo and Dor, together with their villages. The descendants of Joseph son of Israel lived in these towns.
Esau's descendants, the Edomites, say: Our towns have been destroyed, but we will rebuild them. Thus Jehovah (YHWH) will reply: Let them rebuild. I will tear them down again. People will call them the evil country. They are the nation with whom Jehovah has a long lasting anger.
Warn the people that they are forbidden to touch any part of the mountain. Anyone who touches the mountain will be put to death,
(Daughters of Jerusalem) We will make you ornaments of gold with studs of silver.
Asher will have one part of the land and border Dan on the south. It will extend from the eastern border to the western border.
A day for building your walls! In that day the decree will be far removed.
Attack them from a distance, open their storehouses, pile up their corpses like piles of grain, claim them for me by destroying them, and do not leave anyone behind.
And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and it ended at the wilderness of Bethaven.
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Borders Around Tribal Areas
Joshua 15:1-12This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families: The border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the farthest part of the south coast.
Eastern Borders
Ezekiel 47:18On the east side the border will run between Hauran and Damascus. The Jordan River will serve as the border between Gilead and the land of Israel. The border will continue from the Dead Sea down to Tamar. This is the east side.
Northern Borders
Ezekiel 47:15This is the northern border for the land: On the north side the border will run from the Mediterranean Sea all the way to Hethlon and Hamath Pass. It will run through the city of Zedad and through
Western Borders
Numbers 34:6The western border will be the Mediterranean Sea, it will be the western border.