Bible Verses About Exploration

So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.

Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;

Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.

To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand.

Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.

He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.

For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.

These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.

Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh–barnea to see the land.

And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:

When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:

And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;

Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.

Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.

And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.

Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.

And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.

And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the Lord: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.

Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.

Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.

I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.

Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king’s high way, until we be past thy borders.

And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.