45 Bible Verses About Settlement

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Featured Verse

Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

Bible Verses About Settlement

And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

Genesis 26:17KJV

And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan–aram; and pitched his tent before the city.

Genesis 33:18KJV

And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

Genesis 33:17KJV

And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.

Genesis 34:10KJV

Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

Genesis 13:12KJV

And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.

Genesis 20:15KJV

And he called the name of that place Beth–el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.

Genesis 28:19KJV

And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money.

Genesis 33:19KJV

These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

Genesis 34:21KJV

For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.

Genesis 36:7KJV

Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.

Genesis 49:13KJV

And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.

Exodus 6:4KJV

Ekron, with her towns and her villages:

Joshua 15:45KJV

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,

Numbers 15:2KJV

And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.

Numbers 21:25KJV

Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.

Numbers 21:31KJV

And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

Numbers 32:34KJV

Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:

Numbers 34:3KJV

And ye shall point out your east border from Hazar–enan to Shepham:

Numbers 34:10KJV

Until the Lord have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the Lord your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.

Deuteronomy 3:20KJV

When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;

Deuteronomy 12:29KJV

And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.

Judges 11:22KJV

And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:

Joshua 15:44KJV

This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,

Joshua 13:2KJV

So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.

Joshua 11:23KJV

Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth–baal, and Beth–baal–meon,

Joshua 13:17KJV

And in the valley, Beth–aram, and Beth–nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, even unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.

Joshua 13:27KJV

And Maarath, and Beth–anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages:

Joshua 15:59KJV

And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Beth–aven.

Joshua 18:12KJV

And Beth–lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages:

Joshua 19:6KJV

Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:

Joshua 19:7KJV

Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.

Joshua 19:9KJV

Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.

Joshua 19:30KJV

And Iron, and Migdal–el, Horem, and Beth–anath, and Beth–shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.

Joshua 19:38KJV

And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir–shemesh,

Joshua 19:41KJV

According to the word of the Lord they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnath–serah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.

Joshua 19:50KJV

And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Beth–horon with her suburbs; four cities.

Joshua 21:22KJV

Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs; four cities.

Joshua 21:31KJV

Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs; four cities.

Joshua 21:35KJV

Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.

Joshua 21:39KJV

And the Lord gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.

Joshua 21:43KJV

And now the Lord your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side Jordan.

Joshua 22:4KJV

And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.

Judges 1:21KJV

And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:

Judges 3:5KJV

And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites,

1 Samuel 30:29KJV

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