'Land' in the Bible

So King Uzziah was diseased to the time of his death. He lived in quarantine with a serious skin disease and was excluded from access to the Lord’s temple, while his son Jotham was over the king’s household governing the people of the land.

for when you return to Yahweh, your brothers and your sons will receive mercy in the presence of their captors and will return to this land. For Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful; He will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.”

The couriers traveled from city to city in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun, but the inhabitants laughed at them and mocked them.

Then the whole assembly of Judah with the priests and Levites, the whole assembly that came from Israel, the foreigners who came from the land of Israel, and those who were living in Judah, rejoiced.

Many people gathered and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land; they said, “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?”

“‘Don’t you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Have any of the national gods of the lands been able to deliver their land from my power?

They spoke against the God of Jerusalem like they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth, which were made by human hands.

and the Lord sent an angel who annihilated every brave warrior, leader, and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria returned in disgrace to his land. He went to the temple of his god, and there some of his own children struck him down with the sword.

When the ambassadors of Babylon’s rulers were sent to him to inquire about the miraculous sign that happened in the land, God left him to test him and discover what was in his heart.

I will never again remove the feet of the Israelites from the land where I stationed your ancestors, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them through Moses—all the law, statutes, and judgments.”

He tore down the altars, and he smashed the Asherah poles and the carved images to powder. He chopped down all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel and returned to Jerusalem.

In the eighteenth year of his reign, in order to cleanse the land and the temple, Josiah sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, along with Maaseiah the governor of the city and the court historian Joah son of Joahaz, to repair the temple of the Lord his God.

The king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and fined the land 7,500 pounds of silver and 75 pounds of gold.

This fulfilled the word of the Lord through Jeremiah and the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation until 70 years were fulfilled.

Then the people who were already in the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build.

At the beginning of the reign of Ahasuerus, the people who were already in the land wrote an accusation against the residents of Judah and Jerusalem.

Let it now be known to the king that if that city is rebuilt and its walls are finished, they will not pay tribute, duty, or land tax, and the royal revenue will suffer.

Powerful kings have also ruled over Jerusalem and exercised authority over the whole region, and tribute, duty, and land tax were paid to them.

The Israelites who had returned from exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the Gentiles of the land in order to worship Yahweh, the God of Israel.

Be advised that tribute, duty, and land tax must not be imposed on any priests, Levites, singers, doorkeepers, temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.

You gave through Your servants the prophets, saying: “The land you are entering to possess is an impure land. The surrounding peoples have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness by their impurity and detestable practices.

So do not give your daughters to their sons in marriage or take their daughters for your sons. Never seek their peace or prosperity, so that you will be strong, eat the good things of the land, and leave it as an inheritance to your sons forever.”

Listen, our God, for we are despised. Make their insults return on their own heads and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.

Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah—from the twentieth year until his thirty-second year, 12 years—I and my associates never ate from the food allotted to the governor.

Instead, I devoted myself to the construction of the wall, and all my subordinates were gathered there for the work. We didn’t buy any land.

You found his heart faithful in Your sight,and made a covenant with himto give the land of the Canaanites,Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites,Jebusites, and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants.You have kept Your promise,for You are righteous.

You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh,all his officials, and all the people of his land,for You knew how arrogantly they treated our ancestors.You made a name for Yourselfthat endures to this day.

You provided bread from heaven for their hunger;You brought them water from the rock for their thirst.You told them to go in and possess the landYou had sworn to give them.

You gave them kingdoms and peoplesand assigned them to be a boundary.They took possessionof the land of Sihon king of Heshbonand of the land of Og king of Bashan.

You multiplied their descendantslike the stars of heavenand brought them to the landYou told their ancestors to go in and take possession of it.

So their descendants went in and possessed the land:You subdued the Canaanites who inhabited the land before themand handed their kings and the surrounding peoples over to them,to do as they pleased with them.

They captured fortified cities and fertile landand took possession of well-supplied houses,cisterns cut out of rock, vineyards,olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance.They ate, were filled,became prosperous, and delighted in Your great goodness.

When they were in their kingdom,with Your abundant goodness that You gave them,and in the spacious and fertile land You set before them,they would not serve You or turn from their wicked ways.

Here we are today,slaves in the land You gave our ancestorsso that they could enjoy its fruit and its goodness.Here we are—slaves in it!

When the surrounding peoples bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or a holy day. We will also leave the land uncultivated in the seventh year and will cancel every debt.

We will bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the Lord’s house year by year.

In every province and every city, wherever the king’s command and his law reached, joy and rejoicing took place among the Jews. There was a celebration and a holiday. And many of the ethnic groups of the land professed themselves to be Jews because fear of the Jews had overcome them.

King Ahasuerus imposed a tax throughout the land even to the farthest shores.

Haven’t You placed a hedge around him, his household, and everything he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

before I go to a land of darkness and gloom,never to return.

It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,gloomy and chaotic,where even the light is like the darkness.”

When He withholds the waters, everything dries up,and when He releases them, they destroy the land.

as water wears away stonesand torrents wash away the soil from the land,so You destroy a man’s hope.

the land was given to them alonewhen no foreigner passed among them.

He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure.His possessions will not increase in the land.

while the land belonged to a powerful manand an influential man lived on it.

They push the needy off the road;the poor of the land are forced into hiding.

They float on the surface of the water.Their section of the land is cursed,so that they never go to their vineyards.

No man can know its value,since it cannot be found in the land of the living.

Emaciated from poverty and hunger,they gnawed the dry land,the desolate wasteland by night.

Foolish men, without even a name.They were forced to leave the land.

If my land cries out against meand its furrows join in weeping,

He causes this to happen for punishment,for His land, or for His faithful love.

You whose clothes get hotwhen the south wind brings calm to the land,

to bring rain on an uninhabited land,on a desert with no human life,

No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance with their brothers.

The Lord is King forever and ever;the nations will perish from His land.

As for the holy people who are in the land,they are the noble ones.All my delight is in them.

He will live a good life,and his descendants will inherit the land.

I am certain that I will see the Lord’s goodnessin the land of the living.

For they do not speak in friendly ways,but contrive deceitful schemesagainst those who live peacefully in the land.

Trust in the Lord and do what is good;dwell in the land and live securely.

For evildoers will be destroyed,but those who put their hope in the Lordwill inherit the land.

But the humble will inherit the landand will enjoy abundant prosperity.

Those who are blessed by Him will inherit the land,but those cursed by Him will be destroyed.

The righteous will inherit the landand dwell in it permanently.

Wait for the Lord and keep His way,and He will exalt you to inherit the land.You will watch when the wicked are destroyed.

The Lord will keep him and preserve him;he will be blessed in the land.You will not give him over to the desire of his enemies.

I am deeply depressed;therefore I remember You from the land of Jordanand the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

For they did not take the land by their sword—their arm did not bring them victory—but by Your right hand, Your arm,and the light of Your face,for You were pleased with them.

Your sons will succeed your ancestors;you will make them princes throughout the land.

This is why God will bring you down forever.He will take you, ripping you out of your tent;He will uproot you from the land of the living.Selah

No, you practice injustice in your hearts;with your hands you weigh out violence in the land.

You have shaken the land and split it open.Heal its fissures, for it shudders.

A Davidic psalm. When he was in the Wilderness of Judah.God, You are my God; I eagerly seek You.I thirst for You;my body faints for Youin a land that is dry, desolate, and without water.

He turned the sea into dry land,and they crossed the river on foot.There we rejoiced in Him.

God provides homes for those who are deserted.He leads out the prisoners to prosperity,but the rebellious live in a scorched land.

When the Almighty scattered kings in the land,it snowed on Zalmon.

May there be plenty of grain in the land;may it wave on the tops of the mountains.May its crops be like Lebanon.May people flourish in the citieslike the grass of the field.

They said in their hearts,“Let us oppress them relentlessly.”They burned down every place throughout the landwhere God met with us.

Consider the covenant,for the dark places of the land are full of violence.

He worked wonders in the sight of their fathersin the land of Egypt, the region of Zoan.

He brought them to His holy land,to the mountain His right hand acquired.

You cleared a place for it;it took root and filled the land.

He set it up as an ordinance for Josephwhen He went throughout the land of Egypt.I heard an unfamiliar language:

I am Yahweh your God,who brought you up from the land of Egypt.Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

For the choir director. A psalm of the sons of Korah.Lord, You showed favor to Your land;You restored Jacob’s prosperity.

His salvation is very near those who fear Him,so that glory may dwell in our land.

Also, the Lord will provide what is good,and our land will yield its crops.

Will Your wonders be known in the darknessor Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?

The sea is His; He made it.His hands formed the dry land.

My eyes favor the faithful of the landso that they may sit down with me.The one who follows the way of integritymay serve me.

Every morning I will destroyall the wicked of the land,eliminating all evildoers from the Lord’s city.

“I will give the land of Canaan to youas your inherited portion.”

He called down famine against the landand destroyed the entire food supply.

Then Israel went to Egypt;Jacob lived as a foreigner in the land of Ham.

They performed His miraculous signs among them,and wonders in the land of Ham.

Their land was overrun with frogs,even in their royal chambers.

He gave them hail for rain,and lightning throughout their land.

They devoured all the vegetation in their landand consumed the produce of their land.