Lexicon :: Strong's H5439 - sāḇîḇ

Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD. He brought seventy men from the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent.

“Tell the community: Get away from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.”

So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us like an ox eats up the green plants in the field.”

Since Balak son of Zippor was Moab’s king at that time,

So Moses gave them ​— ​the Gadites, Reubenites, and half the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph ​— ​the kingdom of King Sihon of the Amorites and the kingdom of King Og of Bashan, the land including its cities with the territories surrounding them.

“Then the border will go down to the Jordan and end at the Dead Sea. This will be your land defined by its borders on all sides.”

“Command the Israelites to give cities out of their hereditary property for the Levites to live in and pastureland around the cities.

“Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you,

“When you cross the Jordan and live in the land the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you live in security,

“any of the gods of the peoples around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other ​— ​

“When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, take possession of it, live in it, and say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations around me,’

“your elders and judges are to come out and measure the distance from the victim to the nearby cities.

“When the LORD your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, blot out the memory of Amalek under heaven. Do not forget.

Now the western border was the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea.

This was the boundary of the descendants of Judah around their clans.

The Jordan formed the border on the east side.

This was the inheritance of Benjamin’s descendants, by their clans, according to its surrounding borders.

and all the settlements surrounding these cities as far as Baalath-beer (Ramah in the south[fn]).

This was the inheritance of the tribe of Simeon’s descendants by their clans.

They gave them Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron; Arba was the father of Anak) with its surrounding pasturelands in the hill country of Judah.

A long time after the LORD had given Israel rest from all the enemies around them, Joshua was old, advanced in age.

and abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed other gods from the surrounding peoples and bowed down to them. They angered the LORD,

“When I and everyone with me blow our rams’ horns, you are also to blow your rams’ horns all around the camp. Then you will say, ‘For the LORD and for Gideon! ’ ”

The Israelites did not remember the LORD their God who had rescued them from the hand of the enemies around them.

So Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah.

“So the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Barak,[fn] Jephthah, and Samuel. He rescued you from the power of the enemies around you, and you lived securely.

There were Hebrews from the area who had gone earlier into the camp to join the Philistines, but even they joined the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

Immediately, David went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the commander of his army, were lying down. Saul was lying inside the inner circle of the camp with the troops camped around him.

They cut off Saul’s head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to spread the good news in the temples of their idols and among the people.

David took up residence in the stronghold, which he named the city of David. He built it up all the way around from the supporting terraces inward.

When the king had settled into his palace and the LORD had given him rest on every side from all his enemies,

He made darkness a canopy around him,

a gathering[fn] of water and thick clouds.

They went to Gilead and to the land of the Hittites[fn] and continued on to Dan-jaan and around to Sidon.

Solomon made an alliance[fn] with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying Pharaoh’s daughter. Solomon brought her to the city of David until he finished building his palace, the LORD’s temple, and the wall surrounding Jerusalem.

for he had dominion over everything west of the Euphrates from Tiphsah to Gaza and over all the kings west of the Euphrates. He had peace on all his surrounding borders.

“The LORD my God has now given me rest on every side; there is no enemy or misfortune.

He then built a chambered structure[fn] along the temple wall, encircling the walls of the temple, that is, the sanctuary and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers[fn] all around.

Around the great courtyard, as well as the inner courtyard of the LORD’s temple and the portico of the temple, were three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams.