16 occurrences in 7 translations

'Territory' in the Bible

On one of their raids to the territory of Israel, Aram had taken captive a young girl when she was an infant, who had eventually become an attendant to Naaman's wife.

Verse ConceptsChildren, examples ofAttackingSlavery, In OtHelpful ChildrenOther Wives

Later, Naaman went to inform his master and told him something like this: "Thus and so spoke the young woman from the territory of Israel."

Verse ConceptsTelling What People Said

So he prepared a large festival for them, and when they had finished eating and drinking, he sent them back to their master, and marauding gangs of Arameans never came into the territory of Israel again.

Verse ConceptsDinner

So the woman followed the instructions given to her by the man of God, and she went to the territory of the Philistines to live for seven years with her household.

Verse ConceptsSeven YearsMan Of God

At the end of the seven years, the woman returned from the territory of the Philistines and went to the king in order to file an appeal regarding her house and her grain field.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals going home

Furthermore, the dogs will eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel. There will be no burial for her.'" Then he opened the door and left.

Verse ConceptsdogsAnimals Eating PeopleEating CorpsesNo Burialsjezebel

In those days the Lord began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory:

Verse ConceptsNumbers ReducingDefeat Of God's People

from the Jordan River eastward, all the territory of Gilead, the descendants of Gad, the descendants of Reuben, and the descendants of Manasseh, from Aroer by the Valley of the Arnon, including Gilead and Bashan.

Verse ConceptsArnonBeyond JordanReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

At that time, starting from Tirzah, Menahem attacked Tiphsah, all who were in it, and its territory. Because they wouldn’t surrender, he attacked it and ripped open all the pregnant women.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofPregnancyGashing BodiesHarming Pregnant Women

During the lifetime of King Pekah of Israel, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria attacked. He captured the cities of Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, and Hazor. He also captured Gilead, Galilee, and the entire territory of Naphtali, and carried its people off to Assyria.

Verse ConceptsExile, in assyriaArmies, Against IsraelExile Of Israel To AssyriaCapturing CitiesList Of Kings Of Israel

He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city.

Verse ConceptsMan Keeping Watch

"This is what the LORD says: "Never be afraid of the words that you have heard by which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. Look! I'm going to cause an attitude to grow within him so that he'll hear a rumor and return to his own territory, where I'll make him die by the sword in his own land!"'"

Verse ConceptsRumoursSpirit, Emotional Aspects OfKilling Will Happenrumors

Later on, as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with a sword and fled into the territory of Ararat. Then Sennacherib's son Esarhaddon became king in his place.

Verse ConceptsChildren, Bad KidsReligionSwordsWicked Children, Examples OfDesecrationKilling KingsEscaping From PeopleForeign Kings

Furthermore, Josiah removed the mediums, the necromancers, the household gods, the idols, and every despicable thing that could be seen in the territory of Judah and in Jerusalem, so that he might confirm the words of the Law that had been written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the LORD's Temple.

Verse ConceptsAbolitionHousehold GodsMediumsSpiritismFortunetellingSpiritism AvoidedAbandoning IdolsThe Law Given To IsraelOccultismwitchespsychics

The king of Egypt did not leave his territory again, because the king of Babylon had taken everything that belonged to the king of Egypt from the Wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates River.

Verse ConceptsAs Far As The Euphrates

The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed at Riblah in the territory of Hamath. So Judah was deported from its land.

Verse ConceptsHomePunishment, Nature OfWarfare, Examples OfExile Of Judah To BabylonKilling Israelites

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