Bible Verses About Historical Expansion

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

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

But the word of God grew and multiplied.

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

When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.

He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.

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

And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid unto them.

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

But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.

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;

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

Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;

Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.

And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

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

For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

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

Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.

And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,

And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.

It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.

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;

Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.

He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.

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

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.