Quotes About Expansion

Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And from there he went out and built Penuel.

Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Please take note that the place where we meet with you is too small for us.

They also settled in the east as far as the edge of the desert that extends to the Euphrates River, because their livestock had increased in the land of Gilead.

And David took more wives in Jerusalem and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it.

He built Tadmor in the wilderness, in addition to all the store cities that he had built in Hamath.

Rehoboam also acted wisely by dispersing some of his sons throughout the districts of Judah and Benjamin, and to all the fortified cities. He gave them abundant provisions and sought many wives for them.

It sent out its branches to the Sea, and its shoots toward the River.

I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.

You have enlarged the nation, O LORD; You have enlarged the nation. You have gained glory for Yourself; You have extended all the borders of the land.

Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ëThis place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.í

“Enlarge the site of your tent, stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back. Lengthen your ropes and drive your stakes in deep.

For you will spread out to the right and left; your descendants will dispossess the nations and inhabit the desolate cities.

Therefore it towered higher than all the trees of the field. Its branches multiplied, and its boughs grew long as it spread them out because of the abundant waters.

For the king of the North will raise another army, larger than the first, and after some years he will advance with a great army and many supplies.

He will extend his power over many countries, and not even the land of Egypt will escape.

Later I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.