'Settlements' in the Bible
Their settlements extended from Mesha to Sephar, the eastern hill country.
These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their settlements and their camps -- twelve princes according to their clans.
Magdiel, and Iram.These are Edom’s chiefs,according to their settlements in the land they possessed.Esau was father of the Edomites.
You are not to eat what is leavened. You are to eat unleavened bread in all your settlements.'"
Bring two loaves of bread from your settlements as a presentation offering, each of them made from four quarts of fine flour, baked with yeast, as firstfruits to the Lord.
and all their cities in their settlements and all their encampments they burned with fire.
But the people of Reuben and Gad approached Moses and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our flocks and [walled] cities for our children,
but we will be armed and ready to go to war before the [other tribes of the] Israelites, until we have brought them to their place, while our children live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
Build yourselves cities for your children, and folds for your sheep, and do that of which you have spoken.”
As for the Avvites who lived in settlements as far west as Gaza, Caphtorites who came from Crete destroyed them and settled down in their place.)
Their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the settlements of Jair, which [are] in Bashan, sixty cities,
Ashdod with its surrounding towns and settlements, and Gaza with its surrounding towns and settlements, as far as the Stream of Egypt and the border at the Mediterranean Sea.
"If a famine comes to the land, or if plant diseases, mildew, locust, or grasshoppers appear, or if their enemies attack them in their settlements of the land, no matter what the epidemic or illness is,
Their settlements also included Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan -- five towns.
and all their surrounding villages as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept a genealogical record for themselves.
The men whose names are listed came during the time of King Hezekiah of Judah and attacked the Hamites' settlements, as well as the Meunites they discovered there, and they wiped them out to this very day. They dispossessed them, for they found pasture for their sheep there.
They lived in Gilead, in Bashan and its surrounding settlements, and in the pasturelands of Sharon to their very borders.
Now the sons (people) of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land; their settlements spread from Bashan to Baal-hermon and Senir and Mount Hermon.
These were the places assigned to Aaron’s sons from the Kohathite family for their settlements in their territory, because the first lot was for them.
Their holdings and settlements were Bethel and its villages; Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages as far as Ayyah and its villages,
Obadiah son of Shemaiah, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah son of Asa, son of Elkanah, who lived among the settlements of the Netophathites.
All those selected to be gatekeepers at the entrances numbered 212. Their names were recorded in the genealogical records of their settlements. David and Samuel the prophet had appointed them to their positions.
Their relatives, who lived in their settlements, came from time to time and served with them for seven-day periods.
"If a famine comes to the land, or if there comes plant diseases, mildew, locusts, or grasshoppers, or if their enemies attack them in their settlements of the land, no matter what the epidemic or illness is,
As for the farming settlements with their fields:Some of Judah’s descendants lived in Kiriath-arba and its villages,Dibon and its villages, and Jekabzeel and its villages;
Zanoah, Adullam and their settlements, in Lachish and its fields, and in Azekah and its villages. So they were encamped from Beer Sheba to the Valley of Hinnom.
The descendants of Benjamin from Geba, Micmash, Aija, Bethel and {their settlements},
The singers were also assembled from the district around Jerusalem and from the settlements of the Netophathites
and from Beth Gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built settlements for themselves around Jerusalem.
My people will live in peaceful settlements, in secure homes, and in safe, quiet places.
Let the desert and its cities shout,the settlements where Kedar dwells cry aloud.Let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy;let them cry out from the mountaintops.
And the {peaceful settlements} are devastated because of {the burning anger of Yahweh}.
I'm going to bring them out from foreign nations and from foreign lands. Then I'll bring them to their own land and feed them in Israel on the mountains, in their valleys, and in all of their settlements throughout the land.
"I also have scheduled food shortages for you in all of your cities, and lack of bread in all of your settlements, but you haven't returned to me," declares the LORD.
And He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands and territories.