To The North

And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad To the west, and To the east, and To the north, and To the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

And the border shall go on To Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazarenan: this shall be your north border.

And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be To them the suburbs of the cities.

And To the kings that were on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west,

And the border went up To Bethhogla, and passed along by the north of Betharabah; and the border went up To the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben:

And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down To Bethshemesh, and passed on To Timnah:

And the border went out toward the sea To Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanathshiloh, and passed by it on the east To Janohah;

And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up To the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Bethaven.

And the border came down To the end of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended To the valley of Hinnom, To the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended To Enrogel,

And was drawn from the north, and went forth To Enshemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which is over against the going up of Adummim, and descended To the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,

And the border passed along To the side of Bethhoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast.

And the border compasseth it on the north side To Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthahel:

And turneth toward the sunrising To Bethdagon, and reacheth To Zebulun, and To the valley of Jiphthahel toward the north side of Bethemek, and Neiel, and goeth out To Cabul on the left hand,

• Tabernacle

Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel To Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.

the wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according To his circuits.

I will say To the north, Give up; and To the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;

Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger To fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.

In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north To the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.

O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves To flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.

Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, To make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.

For, lo, I will raise and cause To come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.

• Image

And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God To Jerusalem, To the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh To jealousy.

Then he brought me To the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

And say To the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south To the north shall be burned therein.

Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south To the north:

There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down To the pit.

And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee To come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:

And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate To gate an hundred cubits.

And he brought me To the north gate, and measured it according To these measures;

And at the side without, as one goeth up To the entry of the north gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was at the porch of the gate, were two tables.

And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near To the LORD To minister unto him.

And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all their goings out were both according To their fashions, and according To their doors.

• Temple

But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate To worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it.

And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go To Zedad;

Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end To the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth To Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, To the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.

And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come To the king of the north To make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.

• Fortifications
• Armies

So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength To withstand.

But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury To destroy, and utterly To make away many.

And they shall wander from sea To sea, and from the north even To the east, they shall run To and fro To seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

And because the haven was not commodious To winter in, the more part advised To depart thence also, if by any means they might attain To Phenice, and there To winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.