6 occurrences

'Country' in the Bible

And the man said to David, Truly the men got the better of us, and came out against us into the open country, but we sent them back to the very doors of the town.

Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, Why are you coming with us? go back and keep with the king: for you are a man of another country, you are far from the land of your birth.

And there was great weeping in all the country when all the people went through; and the king himself was waiting in the Kidron valley and all the people went by him in the direction of the olive-tree on the edge of the waste land.

Verse ConceptsValleysTemporary Stay In The Wilderness

And the fighting went on over all the face of the country: and the woods were responsible for more deaths than the sword.

Verse ConceptsBattle

Not so: but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba, son of Bichri, by name, has taken up arms against the king, against David: give up this man only, and I will go away from the town. And the woman said to Joab, His head will be dropped over the wall to you.

Verse ConceptsHanding Over People

And they put them with the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the resting-place of Kish, his father, in Zela in the country of Benjamin; they did all the king had given them orders to do. And after that, God gave ear to their prayers for the land.

Verse ConceptsAnother's Burial PlaceGod Answered Prayer

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Commonwealth (2 instances)
Country (613 instances)
Nation (326 instances)

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain