Bible Verses About Geography

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 what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;

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

The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

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

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.

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 all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,

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 hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

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

By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

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

From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.

These are the countries which Moses did distribute for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, by Jericho, eastward.

But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:

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

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

For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.

For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;

The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;

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.

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

So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;

In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.

And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.

And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.

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

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 the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Beth–shemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.

And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.

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

And then the coast turneth westward to Aznoth–tabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising.

And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.

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

Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdoth–pisgah eastward.