'Countryside' in the Bible
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were flocking to him, and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.
The men who tended them ran off and reported it in the town and the countryside, and people went to see what had happened.
Send them away, so they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages to buy themselves something to eat.”
They ran all over the countryside and began carrying the sick on their mats to any place where they heard he was.
Wherever He entered villages, or cities, or countryside, they were laying the sick in the market places, and imploring Him that they might just touch the fringe of His cloak; and as many as touched it were being cured.
And after these [things], he appeared in a different form to two of them [as they] were walking, [while they] were going out into the countryside.
Then Jesus, in the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and news about him spread throughout the surrounding countryside.
This news about Jesus spread throughout Judea and all the surrounding countryside.
When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran off and reported it in the town and in the countryside.
Late in the day, the Twelve approached and said to Him, “Send the crowd away, so they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find food and lodging, because we are in a deserted place here.”
Then those in Judea must flee to the mountains, those inside the city must leave it, and those in the countryside must not go into it,
After this, Jesus and His disciples went to the Judean countryside, where He spent time with them and baptized.
Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim. And He stayed there with the disciples.
Now the Jewish Passover was approaching, and before the Passover many people from the countryside went up to Jerusalem to purify themselves.
Now Saul heartily approved of putting Stephen to death. That day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone except for the apostles was scattered throughout the countryside of Judea and Samaria.