This ¹  report ²  about Jesus ³  circulated ⁴  throughout ⁵  Judea and all the surrounding country.

and the borders of Canaan extended ¹  from Sidon ²  all the way to ³  Gerar as far as Gaza, and all the way to ⁴  Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

“Let us ¹  pass through your land; ²  we will not turn aside into the fields or into the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well, but we will go along the King’s Highway until we pass your borders.”

Jair, son of Manasseh, took all the Argob region as far as the border with the Geshurites ¹  and Maacathites ²  (namely Bashan) and called it by his name, Havvoth-Jair, ³  which it retains to this very day.)

If the Lord your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors ¹  and gives you all the land he pledged to them, ² 

King Ahaz took off the frames of the movable stands, and removed the basins from them. He took “The Sea” ¹  down from the bronze bulls that supported it ²  and put it on the pavement.

This is what the sovereign Lord says: “Here ¹  are the borders ²  you will observe as you allot the land to the twelve tribes of Israel. (Joseph will have two portions.) ³ 

But if you refuse to release them, then I am going to plague ¹  all your territory with frogs. ² 

This is the land that remains: all the territory of the Philistines and all the Geshurites,

The southern border ¹  extended from Bethel to Luz, ²  and crossed to Arkite territory at Ataroth.

that you may take them to their borders and perceive the pathways to their homes? ¹ 

You made us ¹  an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us. ² 

We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us. ¹ 

He destroyed their vines and fig trees, and broke the trees throughout their territory.

When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon ¹  over the face of the deep,

Next to the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad will have one portion.

It will be a day for rebuilding your walls; in that day your boundary will be extended. ¹ 

While in Galilee, he moved from Nazareth ¹  to make his home in Capernaum ²  by the sea, ³  in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,

David thought to himself, ¹  “One of these days I’m going to be swept away by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of searching for me through all the territory of Israel and I will escape from his hand.”

This is what the Lord says: “Because the Ammonites have committed three crimes ¹  – make that four! ²  – I will not revoke my decree of judgment. ³  They ripped open Gilead’s pregnant women ⁴  so they could expand their territory.