'Country' in the Bible
and said to him:Get out of your countryand away from your relatives,and come to the landthat I will show you.
God spoke in this way:His descendants would be strangersin a foreign country,and they would enslaveand oppress them 400 years.
We ourselves are witnesses of everything He did in both the Judean country and in Jerusalem, yet they killed Him by hanging Him on a tree.
He had been very angry with the Tyrians and Sidonians. Together they presented themselves before him. They won over Blastus, who was in charge of the king’s bedroom, and through him they asked for peace, because their country was supplied with food from the king’s country.