14 occurrences

'Country' in the Bible

And if a man from another country is among you and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let him do as is ordered in the law of the Passover: there is to be the same rule for the man from another nation and for him who had his birth in the land.

Verse ConceptsGentiles, In OtOrdinancesPassoverAliens, Believers DutyStrangersForeigners Permitted At The FeastsForeigners Included In The Law

So Moses sent them to have a look at the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up into the South and into the hill-country;

Verse Conceptsexploring

And the Amalekites are in the South; and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill-country; and the Canaanites by the sea and by the side of Jordan.

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, History OfThe Region Of Jordan

Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who were living in the hill-country, and overcame them completely, driving them back as far as Hormah.

Verse ConceptsDefeat Of God's People

And if a man from another country or any other person living among you, through all your generations, has the desire to give an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord, let him do as you do.

Verse ConceptsSmellsAromasAltarsForeigners Permitted At The FeastsForeigners Included In The LawRefreshing God

There is to be one law for you and for the man of another country living with you, one law for ever from generation to generation; as you are, so is he to be before the Lord.

Verse ConceptsOrdinancesForeigners Included In The Law

The law in connection with wrong done unconsciously is to be the same for him who is an Israelite by birth and for the man from another country who is living among them.

Verse ConceptsClosing UpForeigners Included In The LawUnintentionalStrangers in israel

And he who takes up the dust of the burned cow is to have his clothing washed with water and be unclean till evening: this is to be a law for ever, for the children of Israel as well as for the man from another country who is living among them.

Verse ConceptsAshesRitual WashingStrangersClean ClothesPeople Being PollutedUnclean Until EveningForeigners Included In The Law

And anyone touching one who has been put to death with the sword in the open country, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or a man's bone, or the resting-place of a dead body, will be unclean for seven days.

Verse ConceptsDead bodiesGrave, TheTombsCemeterySeven DaysTouching Unclean ThingsRules About CorpsesSeven Days For Legal Purposesnatural Death

And from Bamoth to the valley in the open country of Moab, and to the top of Pisgah looking over Jeshimon.

But Israel overcame him, and took all his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the country of the children of Ammon, for the country of the children of Ammon was strongly armed.

Verse ConceptsArnon

So he took him into the country of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and there they made seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar

Verse ConceptsSeven AnimalsSeven ThingsSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats

So Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and Og, king of Bashan, all the land with its towns and the country round them.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityFractions, One HalfReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six towns are to be safe places, where anyone causing the death of another through error may go in flight.

Verse ConceptsManslaughterStrangersAccidental KillingsForeigners Included In The LawUnintentionalAliens

Bible Theasaurus

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

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