Quotes About Land

Then a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Come quickly, for the Philistines have raided the land!”

That day Achish gave him Ziklag, and to this day it still belongs to the kings of Judah.

Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)

Now by this time Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had removed the mediums and spiritists from the land.

So David and his men got up early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

So he led David down, and there were the Amalekites spread out over all the land, eating, drinking, and celebrating the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.

to those in Racal and in the cities of the Jerahmeelites and Kenites;

And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning

So the Israelites and Absalom camped in the land of Gilead.

The king replied, “Why say any more? I hereby declare that you and Ziba are to divide the land.”

And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saulís father Kish. After they had done everything the king had commanded, God answered their prayers for the land.

Then they went to Gilead and the land of Tahtim-hodshi, and on to Dan-jaan and around to Sidon.

At the end of nine months and twenty days, having gone through the whole land, they returned to Jerusalem.

and these were their names: Ben-hur in the hill country of Ephraim;

Ben-hesed in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);

Throughout the days of Solomon, Judah and Israel dwelt securely from Dan to Beersheba, each man under his own vine and his own fig tree.

then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to their fathers.

When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

so that they may fear You all the days they live in the land that You gave to our fathers.

And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your name—

When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to his own land, whether far or near,

and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to You in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,

then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.

King Solomon gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, who had supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every desire.