'Earth' in the Bible

All the people followed him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth split open from the sound.

“As for me, I am going the way of all of the earth. Be strong and be courageous like a man,

People came from everywhere, sent by every king on earth who had heard of his wisdom, to listen to Solomon’s wisdom.

He said:Lord God of Israel,there is no God like Youin heaven above or on earth below,keeping the gracious covenantwith Your servants who walk before Youwith their whole heart.

But will God indeed live on earth?Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You,much less this temple I have built.

When there is famine on the earth,when there is pestilence,when there is blight, mildew, locust, or grasshopper,when their enemy besieges themin the region of their fortified cities,when there is any plague or illness,

may You hear in heaven, Your dwelling place,and do according to all the foreigner asks You for.Then all the people on earth will know Your name,to fear You as Your people Israel doand know that this temple I have builtis called by Your name.

For You, Lord God, have set them apart as Your inheritancefrom all the people on earth,as You spoke through Your servant Moseswhen You brought their ancestors out of Egypt.

and so that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh is God. There is no other!

This was the sin that caused the house of Jeroboam to be wiped out and annihilated from the face of the earth.