5 occurrences

'Surround' in the Bible

But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations and against My statutes more than the lands which surround her; for they have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’

Verse ConceptsAttitudes Of RejectionRejecting ThingsRejection Of GodGrowth Of EvilThey Do Not Keep Commands

Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Because you have more turmoil than the nations which surround you and have not walked in My statutes, nor observed My ordinances, nor observed the ordinances of the nations which surround you,’

Verse ConceptsCitizenshipThey Do Not Keep Commands

Moreover, I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations which surround you, in the sight of all who pass by.

Verse ConceptsGod DestroyingThe Nations Before GodThings Manifest

So it will be a reproach, a reviling, a warning and an object of horror to the nations who surround you when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath and raging rebukes. I, the Lord, have spoken.

Verse ConceptsMade A HorrorThe Nations Before GodFun

“Meshech, Tubal and all their hordes are there; their graves surround them. All of them were slain by the sword uncircumcised, though they instilled their terror in the land of the living.

Verse ConceptsDying With The UncircumcisedFearing Other PeopleLife And Death

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