All these strong ones are scattering; they have sought permission to go and walk about over the earth.” The Lord had said, “Go! Walk about over the earth!” So they are doing so.

Now the famine was severe in the land.

But Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, in the land of Canaan.

So Saul crossed through the hill country of Ephraim, passing through the land of Shalisha, but they did not find them. So they crossed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then he crossed through the land of Benjamin, and still they did not find them.

Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.

Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they owned land there. They were fruitful and increased rapidly in number.

So Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for quite some time.

So the Israelites lived in the land of the Amorites.

Baalath, Tadmor in the wilderness,

A rope is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him lies on the path.

They speak as if they rule in heaven, and lay claim to the earth.

They rejected the fruitful land; they did not believe his promise.

“Something horrible and shocking is going on in the land of Judah:

The noise of battle can be heard in the land of Babylonia. There is the sound of great destruction.

Let them fall slain in the land of Babylonia, mortally wounded in the streets of her cities.

Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

I cared for you in the wilderness, in the dry desert where no water was.

So Joseph settled his father and his brothers. He gave them territory in the land of Egypt, in the best region of the land, the land of Rameses, just as Pharaoh had commanded.

Geber son of Uri was in charge of the land of Gilead (the territory which had once belonged to King Sihon of the Amorites and to King Og of Bashan). He was sole governor of the area.