Quotes About Land

“What are these towns you have given me, my brother?” asked Hiram, and he called them the Land of Cabul, as they are called to this day.

their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.

Hadad and his men set out from Midian and went to Paran. They took men from Paran with them and went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house and land and provided him with food.

For the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger.

He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver and built a city there, calling it Samaria after the name of Shemer, who had owned the hill.

Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”

So Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard to use as a vegetable garden, since it is next to my palace. I will give you a better vineyard in its place—or if you prefer, I will give you its value in silver.”

Tell him that this is what the LORD says: ëHave you not murdered a man and seized his land?í Then tell him that this is also what the LORD says: ëIn the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, there also the dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!í”

As the sun was setting, the cry rang out in the army: “Every man to his own city, and every man to his own land!”

He banished from the land the male shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father Asa.

Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Please note, our lord, that the cityís location is good, as you can see. But the water is bad and the land is unfruitful.”

The next morning, at the time of the morning sacrifice, water suddenly flowed from the direction of Edom and filled the land.

But when the Moabites came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and attacked them, and they fled before them. So the Israelites invaded their land and struck down the Moabites.

When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”

At the end of seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to the king to appeal for her house and her land.

ëAs surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday, declares the LORD, so will I repay you on this plot of ground, declares the LORD.í Now then, according to the word of the LORD, pick him up and throw him on the plot of ground.”

from the Jordan eastward through all the land of Gilead (the region of Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh), and from Aroer by the Arnon Valley through Gilead to Bashan.

And Joash remained hidden with his nurse in the house of the LORD for six years while Athaliah ruled the land.

He took with him the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD and entered the royal palace by way of the Gate of the Guards. Then Joash took his seat on the royal throne,

And Elisha died and was buried. Now the Moabite raiders used to come into the land every spring.

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.

So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The peoples that you have removed and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land. Because of this, He has sent lions among them, which are indeed killing them off.”

Then the king of Assyria commanded: “Send back one of the priests you carried off from Samaria, and have him go back to live there and teach the requirements of the God of the land.”

So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ëGo up against this land and destroy it.í”