'Land' in the Bible

She has fallen;Virgin Israel will never rise again.She lies abandoned on her land,with no one to raise her up.

When the locusts finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, “Lord God, please forgive! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”

The Lord God showed me this: The Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.

Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you right here in the house of Israel. The land cannot endure all his words,

Then Amaziah said to Amos, “Go away, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah. Earn your living and give your prophecies there,

Therefore, this is what the Lord says:Your wife will be a prostitute in the city,your sons and daughters will fall by the sword,and your land will be divided upwith a measuring line.You yourself will die on pagan soil,and Israel will certainly go into exilefrom its homeland.

Hear this, you who trample on the needyand do away with the poor of the land,

Because of this, won’t the land quakeand all who dwell in it mourn?All of it will rise like the Nile;it will surge and then subsidelike the Nile in Egypt.

And in that day—this is the declaration of the Lord God—I will make the sun go down at noon;I will darken the land in the daytime.

Hear this! The days are coming—this is the declaration of the Lord God—when I will send a famine through the land:not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,but of hearing the words of the Lord.

Israelites, are you not like the Cushites to Me?This is the Lord’s declaration.Didn’t I bring Israel from the land of Egypt,the Philistines from Caphtor,and the Arameans from Kir?

I will plant them on their land,and they will never again be uprootedfrom the land I have given them.Yahweh your God has spoken.

People from the Negev will possessthe hill country of Esau;those from the Judean foothills will possessthe land of the Philistines.They will possessthe territories of Ephraim and Samaria,while Benjamin will possess Gilead.

He answered them, “I’m a Hebrew. I worship Yahweh, the God of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.”

Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they couldn’t because the sea was raging against them more and more.

Then the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

In that day one will take up a taunt against you,and lament mournfully, saying,“We are totally ruined!He measures out the allotted land of my people.How He removes it from me!He allots our fields to traitors.”

Therefore, there will be no onein the assembly of the Lordto divide the land by casting lots.

He will be their peace.When Assyria invades our land,when it marches against our fortresses,we will raise against it seven shepherds,even eight leaders of men.

They will shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword,the land of Nimrod with a drawn blade.So He will rescue us from Assyriawhen it invades our land,when it marches against our territory.

I will remove the cities of your landand tear down all your fortresses.

Indeed, I brought you up from the land of Egyptand redeemed you from that place of slavery.I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam ahead of you.

Godly people have vanished from the land;there is no one upright among the people.All of them wait in ambush to shed blood;they hunt each other with a net.

I will perform miracles for themas in the days of your exodusfrom the land of Egypt.

Look, your troops are like women among you;the gates of your landare wide open to your enemies.Fire will devour the bars of your gates.

You have made your merchantsmore numerous than the stars of the sky.The young locust strips the landand flies away.

I see the tents of Cushan in distress;the tent curtains of the land of Midian tremble.

Woe, inhabitants of the seacoast,nation of the Cherethites!The word of the Lord is against you,Canaan, land of the Philistines:I will destroy you until there is no one left.

So on your account,the skies have withheld the dewand the land its crops.

Even so, be strong, Zerubbabel”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “Be strong, Joshua son of Jehozadak, high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “Work! For I am with you”—the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.

For the Lord of Hosts says this: “Once more, in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.

I asked, “What are they coming to do?”He replied, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so no one could raise his head. These craftsmen have come to terrify them, to cut off the horns of the nations that raised their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”

“Get up! Leave the land of the north”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven”—this is the Lord’s declaration.

The Lord will take possession of Judah as His portion in the Holy Land, and He will once again choose Jerusalem.

Notice the stone I have set before Joshua; on that one stone are seven eyes. I will engrave an inscription on it”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“and I will take away the guilt of this land in a single day.

Then he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole land, for every thief will be removed according to what is written on one side, and everyone who swears falsely will be removed according to what is written on the other side.

So I asked, “What is it?”He responded, “It’s a measuring basket that is approaching.” And he continued, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”

“To build a shrine for it in the land of Shinar,” he told me. “When that is ready, the basket will be placed there on its pedestal.”

The one with the black horses is going to the land of the north, the white horses are going after them, but the dappled horses are going to the land of the south.”

Then He summoned me saying, “See, those going to the land of the north have pacified My Spirit in the northern land.”

“Ask all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh months for these 70 years, did you really fast for Me?

“I scattered them with a windstorm over all the nations that had not known them, and the land was left desolate behind them, with no one coming or going. They turned a pleasant land into a desolation.”

The Lord of Hosts says this: “I will save My people from the land of the east and the land of the west.

“For they will sow in peace: the vine will yield its fruit, the land will yield its produce, and the skies will yield their dew. I will give the remnant of this people all these things as an inheritance.

An OracleThe word of the Lordis against the land of Hadrach,and Damascus is its resting place—for the eyes of menand all the tribes of Israelare on the Lord—

The Lord their God will save them on that dayas the flock of His people;for they are like jewels in a crown,sparkling over His land.

I will bring them back from the land of Egyptand gather them from Assyria.I will bring them to the land of Gileadand to Lebanon,but it will not be enough for them.

Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “Instead, I will turn everyone over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from them.”

I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are going astray, and he will not seek the lost or heal the broken. He will not sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.

The land will mourn, every family by itself: the family of David’s house by itself and their women by themselves; the family of Nathan’s house by itself and their women by themselves;

On that day”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.

In the whole land—this is the Lord’s declaration—two-thirds will be cut off and die,but a third will be left in it.

All the land from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem will be changed into a plain. But Jerusalem will be raised up and will remain on its site from the Benjamin Gate to the place of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses.

“Then all the nations will consider you fortunate, for you will be a delightful land,” says the Lord of Hosts.

And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”

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.