Bible Verses About Geographical Discovery

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:

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

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

And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.

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.

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:

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

Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.

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

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.

When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;

Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.

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.

And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;

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

But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;

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

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

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

And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.

Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.

And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.

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.

Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.

Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.

I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;

Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.

And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.

And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.

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.

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.

Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;

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.

He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.

And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed through the land of Shalim, and there they were not: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found them not.

Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?

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.

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

And it went out to the south side to Maaleh–acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadesh–barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:

And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.