'Land' in the Bible

And now make confession to Jehovah the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure, and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign wives.

Hear, our God, for we are despised, and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in a land of captivity!

Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.

and foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest the covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it to his seed; and thou hast performed thy words, for thou art righteous.

and didst shew signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants, and upon all the people of his land; for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them, and thou didst make thee a name, as it is this day.

And thou gavest them bread from the heavens for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and didst say to them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.

And thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples, and didst divide them by countries; and they possessed the land of Sihon, as well the land of the king of Heshbon, as the land of Og king of Bashan.

And their children thou didst multiply as the stars of heaven, and thou broughtest them into the land concerning which thou didst say to their fathers that they should go in to possess it.

And the children went in and possessed the land; and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, both their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.

And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all good things, wells digged, vineyards and olive-gardens, and fruit trees in abundance. And they did eat and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.

And they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land that thou didst set before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.

Behold, we are servants this day, and the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are bondmen in it.

and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

and that if the peoples of the land brought wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, we would not take it of them on the sabbath, or on any holy day; and that we would leave the land uncultivated the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

and to bring the first-fruits of our land, and the first-fruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year to the house of Jehovah,

And in every province, and in every city, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many among the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.

And king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land and the isles of the sea.

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and this man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and abstained from evil.

Hast not thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is spread abroad in the land.

Before I go, and never to return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness.

But the powerful man, he had the land; and the man of high rank dwelt in it.

They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves.

Man knoweth not the value thereof; and it is not found in the land of the living.

Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land.

If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together;

Whether he cause it to come as a rod, or for his land, or in mercy.

And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

Jehovah is King for ever and ever: the nations have perished out of his land.

Unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living ...!

For they speak not peace; and they devise deceitful words against the quiet in the land.

Confide in Jehovah, and do good; dwell in the land, and feed on faithfulness;

For evil-doers shall be cut off; but those that wait on Jehovah, they shall possess the land.

But the meek shall possess the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of prosperity.

for those blessed of him shall possess the land, and they that are cursed of him shall be cut off.

The righteous shall possess the land, and dwell therein for ever.

Wait for Jehovah, and keep his way, and he will exalt thee to possess the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.

Jehovah will preserve him, and keep him alive; he shall be made happy in the land; and thou wilt not deliver him to the will of his enemies.

My God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and the Hermons, from mount Mizar.

For not by their own sword did they take possession of the land, neither did their own arm save them; but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst delight in them.

God shall likewise destroy thee for ever; he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

{A Psalm of David; when he was in the wilderness of Judah.} O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh languisheth for thee, in a dry and weary land without water:

He turned the sea into dry land; they went through the river on foot: there did we rejoice in him.

God maketh the solitary into families; those that were bound he bringeth out into prosperity: but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all God's places of assembly in the land.

In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.

Thou preparedst space before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land;

He ordained it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went forth over the land of Egypt, where I heard a language that I knew not.

I am Jehovah thy God, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

{To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.} Thou hast been favourable, Jehovah, unto thy land; thou hast turned the captivity of Jacob:

Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

Jehovah also will give what is good, and our land shall yield its increase.

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

The sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.

Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.

Every morning will I destroy all the wicked of the land: to cut off all workers of iniquity from the city of Jehovah.

Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;

And he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole staff of bread.

And Israel came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

They set his signs among them, and miracles in the land of Ham.

Their land swarmed with frogs, in the chambers of their kings.

He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land;

And they devoured every herb in their land, and ate up the fruit of their ground.

And he smote every firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigour.

Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.

And they despised the pleasant land; they believed not his word,

And shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.

A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

He maketh the wilderness into a pool of water, and the dry land into water-springs;

His seed shall be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

I will walk before Jehovah in the land of the living.

I am a stranger in the land; hide not thy commandments from me.

And gave their land for an inheritance, an inheritance unto Israel his people.

And gave their land for an inheritance, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever,

I cried unto thee, Jehovah; I said, Thou art my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.

I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul, as a parched land, thirsteth after thee. Selah.

For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it;

but the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful shall be plucked up out of it.

The righteous man shall never be moved; but the wicked shall not inhabit the land.

He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he that followeth the worthless is void of understanding.

It is better to dwell in a desert land. than with a contentious and irritable woman.

By the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof; but by a man of understanding and of knowledge, its stability is prolonged.

He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he that followeth the worthless shall have poverty enough.

A king by just judgment establisheth the land; but he that taketh gifts overthroweth it.

Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is a son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

The flowers appear on the earth; The time of singing is come, And the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land;

Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers eat it up in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

If ye be willing and hearken, ye shall eat the good of the land;

And their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end of their treasures: their land also is full of horses, and there is no end of their chariots.

And their land is full of idols; they bow themselves down to the work of their own hands, to that which their fingers have made.

Woe unto them that add house to house, that join field to field, until there is no more room, and that ye dwell yourselves alone in the midst of the land!

And I said, Lord, how long? And he said, Until the cities be wasted, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land become an utter desolation,

and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the solitude be great in the midst of the land.

For before the child knoweth to refuse the evil and to choose the good, the land whose two kings thou fearest shall be forsaken.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will hiss for the fly which is at the extremity of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria;

and it shall come to pass, from the abundance of milk they shall give, that he shall eat butter; for every one that remaineth in the midst of the land shall eat butter and honey.

with arrows and with the bow shall they come thither, for the whole land shall become briars and thorns.

and he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow it and go further, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel!