Quotes about Expansion

The Reubenites built up Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

You are also to measure two thousand cubits outside the city on the east, two thousand on the south, two thousand on the west, and two thousand on the north, with the city in the center. These areas will serve as larger pasturelands for the cities.

The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.

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.

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 answered them, “If you have so many people that the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go to the forest and clear for yourself an area in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim.”

It went on to Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, as far as Greater Sidon.

Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Please take note that the place where we meet with you is too small for us.

They also settled in the east as far as the edge of the desert that extends to the Euphrates River, because their livestock had increased in the land of Gilead.

Solomon rebuilt the cities Hiram had given him and settled Israelites there.

He built Tadmor in the wilderness, in addition to all the store cities that he had built in Hamath.