'Surrounding' in the Bible

When all of our enemies including the surrounding nations heard this, they became very discouraged, since they saw that the work had been done by our God.

The rest of the people, the priests, the descendants of Levi, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Temple Servants, and everyone who had separated themselves from the nations of the surrounding lands for the Law of God their wives, their sons, their daughters, and all who had knowledge and understanding

So the descendants of the singers gathered themselves together from the region surrounding Jerusalem, from the villages of Netophathi,