'Country' in the Bible

In those days Mary got up and went hurriedly into the hill country, to a town of Judah,

All their neighbors were filled with fear, and throughout the entire hill country of Judea all these things were talked about.

This report about Jesus circulated throughout Judea and all the surrounding country.

So the master said to his slave, 'Go out to the highways and country roads and urge people to come in, so that my house will be filled.

After a few days, the younger son gathered together all he had and left on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth with a wild lifestyle.

Then after he had spent everything, a severe famine took place in that country, and he began to be in need.

So he went and worked for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.

Therefore he said, "A nobleman went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return.

Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. Those who are inside the city must depart. Those who are out in the country must not enter it,

As they led him away, they seized Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country. They placed the cross on his back and made him carry it behind Jesus.