'Land' in the Bible

And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,are by no means least among the leaders of Judah:because out of you will come a leaderwho will shepherd My people Israel.”

saying, “Get up! Take the child and His mother and go to the land of Israel, because those who sought the child’s life are dead.”

So he got up, took the child and His mother, and entered the land of Israel.

Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali,along the sea road, beyond the Jordan,Galilee of the Gentiles!

I assure you: It will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.

But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”

But the boat was already over a mile from land, battered by the waves, because the wind was against them.

Once they crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to make one proselyte, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as fit for hell as you are!

From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over the whole land.

but many saw them leaving and recognized them. People ran there by land from all the towns and arrived ahead of them.

When evening came, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and He was alone on the land.

When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and beached the boat.

When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.

He got into one of the boats, which belonged to Simon, and asked him to put out a little from the land. Then He sat down and was teaching the crowds from the boat.

Then they brought the boats to land, left everything, and followed Him.

When He got out on land, a demon-possessed man from the town met Him. For a long time he had worn no clothes and did not stay in a house but in the tombs.

Then He told them a parable: “A rich man’s land was very productive.

Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days, for there will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three,

But since they were not far from land (about 100 yards away), the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish.

When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish lying on it, and bread.

and said to him:Get out of your countryand away from your relatives,and come to the landthat I will show you.

“Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. From there, after his father died, God had him move to this land you now live in.

“At this disclosure, Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he fathered two sons.

This man led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness 40 years.

They told Aaron:Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what’s happened to him.

Saul agreed with putting him to death.On that day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout the land of Judea and Samaria.

The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors, exalted the people during their stay in the land of Egypt, and led them out of it with a mighty arm.

then after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, He gave their land to them as an inheritance.

Then we went on ahead to the ship and sailed for Assos, intending to take Paul on board there. For these were his instructions, since he himself was going by land.

When the fourteenth night came, we were drifting in the Adriatic Sea, and in the middle of the night the sailors thought they were approaching land.

When daylight came, they did not recognize the land but sighted a bay with a beach. They planned to run the ship ashore if they could.

But the centurion kept them from carrying out their plan because he wanted to save Paul, so he ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land.

The rest were to follow, some on planks and some on debris from the ship. In this way, everyone safely reached the shore.

so that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life in the land.

not like the covenantthat I made with their ancestorson the day I took them by their handsto lead them out of the land of Egypt.I disregarded them, says the Lord,because they did not continue in My covenant.

By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, coheirs of the same promise.

If they were thinking about where they came from, they would have had an opportunity to return.

But they now desire a better place—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

By faith they crossed the Red Sea as though they were on dry land. When the Egyptians attempted to do this, they were drowned.

You have lived luxuriously on the land and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours; yet he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.

Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land produced its fruit.

and he had a little scroll opened in his hand. He put his right foot on the sea, his left on the land,

Then the angel that I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven.

Now the voice that I heard from heaven spoke to me again and said, “Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”