'Land' in the Bible

“When I scatter them among the nations,They will remember Me in far countries,And with their children they will live and come back [to Me and the land I gave them].

I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them.

For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.

For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.

And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

But he will say, I am no prophet, but a worker on the land; for I have been an owner of land from the time when I was young.

And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

And Jehovah hath become king over all the land, In that day there is one Jehovah, and His name one.

All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.

And it hath come to pass, That he who doth not go up of the families of the land unto Jerusalem, To bow himself to the King, Jehovah of Hosts, Even on them there is no shower.

And Esau was hated, and I sent destruction on his mountains, and gave his heritage to the beasts of the waste land.

Even though Edom may claim, "We were crushed, but we will return and rebuild the ruins,' this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "They may rebuild, but I'll demolish. People will call them, "The Wicked Land,' and, "The People With Whom the LORD is Forever Angry.'

And I'll prevent the devourer from harming you, so that he does not destroy the crops of your land. Nor will the vines in your fields drop their fruit," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.

And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”

And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.

Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.

And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.

And in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the waste land of Judaea,

For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.

Then Jesus was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One.

The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;

The people living in darkness have seen a great light, and for those living in the land and shadow of death, a light has risen."

Happy the meek -- because they shall inherit the land.

'Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men.

And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.

but they, having gone forth, did spread his fame in all that land.

Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.

And when they were going away, Jesus, talking of John, said to all the people, What went you out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind?

But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.

"So the farmer's men come and ask him, "'Sir, was it not good seed that you sowed on your land? Where then does the darnel come from?'

and Jesus having heard, withdrew thence in a boat to a desolate place by himself, and the multitudes having heard did follow him on land from the cities.

And when evening had come, the disciples came to him, saying, This place is waste land, and the time is now past; send the people away so that they may go into the towns and get themselves food.

But the boat was already over a mile from land, battered by the waves, because the wind was against them.

And when they were gone over, they came into the land of Gennesaret.

And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.

But they made light of it, and went, one to his own land, and another to his commerce.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

If, then, they say to you, See, he is in the waste land; go not out: See, he is in the inner rooms; put no faith in it.

Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all "the tribes of the land will mourn' when they see "the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven' with power and great glory.

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight;

John came, and gave baptism in the waste land, preaching baptism as a sign of forgiveness of sin for those whose hearts were changed.

And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.

And straight away the Spirit sent him out into the waste land.

And he was in the waste land for forty days, being tested by Satan; and he was with the beasts; and the angels took care of him.

But he went out, and made it public, giving an account of it everywhere, so that Jesus was no longer able to go openly into a town, but was outside in the waste land; and they came to him from every part.

And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.

Of itself the land produces the crop-- first the blade, then the ear; afterwards the perfect grain is seen in the ear.

but many saw them leaving and recognized them. People ran there by land from all the towns and arrived ahead of them.

And at the end of the day, his disciples came to him and said, This place is waste land, and it is late:

And when even was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea, and he alone on the land.

And when they had passed over, they came into the land of Gennesaret, and drew to the shore.

Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.

And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

And the child became tall, and strong in spirit; and he was living in the waste land till the day when he came before the eyes of Israel.

When Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, the word of the Lord came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the waste land.

As it says in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, came back from the Jordan, and was guided by the Spirit in the waste land

But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

and yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship.

And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him.

And when the men who were sent by John had gone away, he said to the people, about John, What did you go out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind?

And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.

Then He told them a parable: “A rich man’s land was very productive.

And all began, without exception, to excuse themselves. The first said to him, I have bought land, and I must go out and see it; I pray thee hold me for excused.

It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if one of them gets loose and goes away, will not let the ninety-nine be in the waste land by themselves, and go after the wandering one, till he sees where it is?

And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

Have not any of them come back to give glory to God, but only this one from a strange land?

But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

And there shall be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on the land is distress of nations with perplexity, sea and billow roaring;

for as a snare it shall come on all those dwelling on the face of all the land,

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three,

He said, I am the voice of one crying in the waste land, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.

As the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up:

After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.

So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.

Our fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them bread from heaven.

Your fathers took the manna in the waste land--and they are dead.

So Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near to the waste land, to a town named Ephraim, where he was for some time with the disciples.

And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fishes.

As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.

Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.

(Now Judas Iscariot acquired a piece of land [indirectly] with the [money paid him as a] reward for his treachery, and falling headlong, his body burst open in the middle and all his intestines poured out.

All the people in Jerusalem learned about this, so in their own dialect—Aramaic—they called the piece of land Hakeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)

since none of them needed anything, because everyone who had land or houses would sell them and bring the money received for the things sold

Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.

But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

While it remained unsold, was not the land your own? And when sold, was it not at your own disposal? How is it that you have cherished this design in your heart? It is not to men you have told this lie, but to God."

And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.

And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.

God gave him no property here, not even a foot of land, yet he promised to give it to him and to his descendants after him as a permanent possession, even though he had no child.

And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.

Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.