Quotes about Territorial Expansion
In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of the Danites was looking for territory to occupy. For up to that time they had not come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
— Judges 18:1
Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites struck down and whose lands they took beyond the Jordan to the east, from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the Arabah eastward:
— Joshua 12:1
the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
— Joshua 12:14
Elon, Timnah, Ekron,
— Joshua 19:43
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.
— Amos 1:13
And the Gadites built up Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,
— Numbers 32:34
When the LORD your God expands your territory as He has promised, and you crave meat and say, “I want to eat meat,” you may eat it whenever you want.
— Deuteronomy 12:20
Now the king of Egypt did not march out of his land again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.
— 2 Kings 24:7
Your territory shall extend from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great River Euphrates—all the land of the Hittites—and west as far as the Great Sea.
— Joshua 1:4
Now the border of Manasseh went from Asher to Michmethath near Shechem, then southward to include the inhabitants of En-tappuah.
— Joshua 17:7
May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.”
— Genesis 9:27
With a great blow he devastated twenty cities from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel-keramim. So the Ammonites were subdued before the Israelites.
— Judges 11:33