18 occurrences

'Land' in the Bible

They said to me, The small band of Jews now living there in the land are in great trouble and shame: the wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsCityGatesBattering ramsWallsDestruction Of JerusalemDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallCity GatesBurning JerusalemSurvivors Of Israel

Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:

Verse ConceptsHeadsInferiorityCrying To GodLet Evil ReboundPay Attention O God!

Now from the time when I was made ruler of the people in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year till the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my servants have never taken the food which was the right of the ruler.

Verse ConceptsGovernorsArtaxerxes The KingTen To Fourteen Years

And I kept on with the work of this wall, and we got no land for ourselves: and all my servants were helping with the work.

Verse ConceptsConcentration

You saw that his heart was true to you, and made an agreement with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite, even to give it to his seed, and you have done what you said; for righteousness is yours:

Verse ConceptsGod, Faithfulness OfGod, Righteousness OfHeart, And Holy SpiritRenewed HeartGod Gave The LandGod's Covenant With The Patriarchs

And you did signs and wonders on Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land; for you saw how cruel they were to them. So you got yourself a name as it is today.

Verse ConceptsPride, Results OfArrogance, Punishment OfGod, All knowingAs At This Day

By you the sea was parted before them, so that they went through the sea on dry land; and those who went after them went down into the deep, like a stone into great waters.

Verse ConceptsPassing ThroughDivision Of WatersDry LandPeople As RocksGod KillingWaters DividedThe Sea DividedGod Killed The Peoples

And you gave them bread from heaven when they were in need, and made water come out of the rock for their drink, and gave them orders to go in and take for their heritage the land which your hand had been lifted up to give them.

Verse ConceptsBread, Kinds OfHand Of GodMannaThirstGod Providing WaterGod Gave The Land

Even then, in your great mercy, you did not give them up in the waste land: the pillar of cloud still went before them by day, guiding them on their way, and the pillar of fire by night, to give them light, and make clear the way they were to go.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentGuidance, Receiving God'sObelisksGod Appearing In FireLight In The WorldGod Not ForsakingDuring The DayGod Has Guided

Truly, for forty years you were their support in the waste land, and they were in need of nothing; their clothing did not get old or their feet become tired.

Verse ConceptsClothingThe Number Forty40 To 50 YearsThings Wearing OutGod Providing

And you gave them kingdoms and peoples, making distribution to them in every part of the land: so they took for their heritage the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og, king of Bashan.

Verse ConceptsKingdomsGod Sets Boundaries

And you made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven, and took them into the land, of which you had said to their fathers that they were to go in and take it for themselves.

Verse ConceptsBlessings, To AbrahamStars

So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure to do.

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Examples OfThose God Gave Into Their Hands

And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsAbundance, MaterialDelighting, Right Kinds OfOlivesVineyardWellsTaking PossessionCapturing Cities

For they have not been your servants in their kingdom, and in all the good things you gave them, and in the great and fat land you gave them, and they have not been turned away from their evil-doing.

Verse ConceptsNot Serving God

Now, today, we are servants, and as for the land which you gave to our fathers, so that the produce of it and the good might be theirs, see, we are servants in it:

Verse ConceptsGod Gave The LandGroups Of Slaves

And to take the first-fruits of our land, and the first-fruits of every sort of tree, year by year, into the house of the Lord;

Verse ConceptsClaimsFirst fruitsResponsibility

And that we would take the first of our rough meal, and our lifted offerings, and the fruit of every sort of tree, and wine and oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take a tenth in all the towns of our ploughed land.

Verse ConceptsAaron, As High PriestGrindingFractions, One TenthTithesFirst fruitsTithes And Offering

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