Quotes About Boundaries

ëCursed is he who sleeps with his mother-in-law.í And let all the people say, ëAmen!í

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

Then it went out to the northern slope of Ekron, curved toward Shikkeron, proceeded to Mount Baalah, went on to Jabneel, and ended at the Sea.

And the western border was the coastline of the Great Sea. These are the boundaries around the clans of the descendants of Judah.

Then the king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Build a house for yourself in Jerusalem and live there, but do not go anywhere else.

This Jeroboam restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word that the LORD, the God of Israel, had spoken through His servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.

The gatekeepers were stationed on the four sides: east, west, north, and south.

He stationed gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD, so that nothing unclean could enter for any reason.

but I warned them, “Why are you camping in front of the wall? If you do it again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on, they did not return on the Sabbath.

But he went only as far as the kingís gate, because the law prohibited anyone wearing sackcloth from entering that gate.

Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.

If my heart has been enticed by my neighborís wife, or I have lurked at his door,

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

and I declared: ëYou may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stopí?

so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?

The lines of my boundary have fallen in pleasant places; surely my inheritance is delightful.

You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.

Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,

Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.

that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.

when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.