5 occurrences

'Country' in the Bible

and said to him, 'Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.'

Verse ConceptsAbrahamPilgrimsSeparating From Relativesland

Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this country where you now live.

But God spoke as follows: 'Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions Of100 Years And MoreThose OppressedReckoned As ForeignersGroups Of SlavesStrangers in israelslaveryoppression

Now Herod was having an angry quarrel with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they joined together and presented themselves before him. And after convincing Blastus, the king's personal assistant, to help them, they asked for peace, because their country's food supply was provided by the king's country.

Verse ConceptsChamberlainsPeople Providing FoodNamed People Angry With OthersPrivate Rooms

The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and made the people great during their stay as foreigners in the country of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, Examples Of God'sArm Of GodLeaving EgyptGod Multipling PeopleStrangers in israel

Bible Theasaurus

Commonwealth (2 instances)
Country (613 instances)
Nation (326 instances)

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