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This concept is significant in understanding the historical and theological context of various biblical narratives, as it often relates to God's promises, judgments, and the unfolding of His divine plan.<br><br><b>Old Testament Context</b><br><br>In the Old Testament, the idea of inhabited land is frequently associated with the Promised Land, which God pledged to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The land of Canaan, described as a "land flowing with milk and honey" (<a href="/exodus/3-8.htm">Exodus 3:8</a>), was inhabited by various peoples, including the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. The Israelites' conquest and settlement of this land are central themes in the books of Joshua and Judges.<br><br>The concept of inhabited land also appears in the context of divine judgment. For instance, the prophet Isaiah speaks of desolation coming upon the land as a result of the people's disobedience: "The earth will be completely laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word" (<a href="/isaiah/24-3.htm">Isaiah 24:3</a>). Here, the transformation from inhabited to desolate serves as a warning and a call to repentance.<br><br><b>New Testament Context</b><br><br>In the New Testament, the term "inhabited" is less frequently used but remains significant in understanding the spread of the Gospel. The Great Commission, as recorded in <a href="/matthew/28-19.htm">Matthew 28:19-20</a>, commands the disciples to "go and make disciples of all nations," implying the spread of the Gospel to all inhabited regions of the earth. This mission underscores the universality of the Christian message and the call to reach every corner of the inhabited world.<br><br>The Book of Acts provides a narrative of the early Church's expansion into various inhabited regions of the Roman Empire. The apostles and early Christians traveled extensively, establishing communities of believers in cities and towns across the Mediterranean world. This expansion reflects the fulfillment of Jesus' command to be His witnesses "to the ends of the earth" (<a href="/acts/1-8.htm">Acts 1:8</a>).<br><br><b>Theological Significance</b><br><br>Theologically, the concept of inhabited land in the Bible often symbolizes God's provision and blessing. The Promised Land, as an inhabited space, represents God's faithfulness to His covenant promises. Conversely, the desolation of inhabited lands serves as a reminder of the consequences of sin and disobedience.<br><br>In eschatological terms, the inhabited earth is seen as the stage for the unfolding of God's redemptive plan. The ultimate hope for believers is the establishment of a new heaven and a new earth, where God's presence will dwell among His people, and the entire creation will be renewed and inhabited in perfect harmony (<a href="/revelation/21.htm">Revelation 21:1-3</a>).<br><br><b>Conclusion</b><br><br>The concept of "inhabited" in the Bible encompasses both physical and spiritual dimensions, reflecting God's interaction with humanity throughout history. It highlights themes of promise, judgment, mission, and ultimate restoration, inviting believers to participate in God's ongoing work in the world.<a name="web" id="web"></a><div class="vheading2">Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary</div>1. (<I>imp. & p. p.</I>) of Inhabit.<p>2. (<I>a.</I>) Uninhabited.<a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/3625.htm"><span class="l">3625. oikoumene -- the <b>inhabited</b> earth</span></a> <br><b>...</b> the <b>inhabited</b> earth. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: oikoumene Phonetic<br> Spelling: (oy-kou-men'-ay) Short Definition: the <b>inhabited</b> (Roman) world <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3625.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p><a href="/greek/2484.htm"><span class="l">2484. Itouraios -- Ituraea, a region North of Pal.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Definition: Ituraean, an adjective applied to a district also called Trachonitis,<br> about 60 miles east of the Sea of Galilee, and partly <b>inhabited</b> by the nomad <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2484.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/4186.htm"><span class="l">4186. moshab -- a seat, assembly, dwelling place, dwelling <b>...</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> dwellers NASB Word Usage dwelling (3), dwelling place (1), dwelling places (5),<br> dwellings (9), habitation (1), habitations (2), <b>inhabited</b> (3), <b>inhabited</b> places <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/4186.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/8398.htm"><span class="l">8398. tebel -- world</span></a><br><b>...</b> Definition: world. Word Origin from yabal Definition world NASB Word Usage<br> <b>inhabited</b> (1), <b>inhabited</b> world (1), world (34). confusion. From <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/8398.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/1509.htm"><span class="l">1509. gezerah -- separation</span></a><br><b>...</b> Word Origin from gazar Definition separation NASB Word Usage solitary (1). not<br> <b>inhabited</b>. From gazar; a desert (as separated) -- not <b>inhabited</b>. see HEBREW gazar <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/1509.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/3667.htm"><span class="l">3667. Kna'an -- a son of Ham, also his desc. and their land West <b>...</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> Canaan, merchant, traffic From kana'; humiliated; Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the<br> country <b>inhabited</b> by him -- Canaan, merchant, traffick. see HEBREW kana'. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/3667.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/3427.htm"><span class="l">3427. yashab -- to sit, remain, dwell</span></a><br><b>...</b> 20), dwells (12), dwelt (9), enthroned (9), had (1), inhabit (6), inhabitant (27),<br> inhabitants (202), inhabitants of dwell (1), <b>inhabited</b> (25), inhabiting (1 <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/3427.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/7931.htm"><span class="l">7931. shakan -- to settle down, abide, dwell</span></a><br><b>...</b> 1), abides (1), camping (1), continue (1), dwell (56), dwellers (1), dwelling (7),<br> dwells (11), dwelt (5), establish (5), inhabitants (1), <b>inhabited</b> (1), lay (1 <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/7931.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/5761.htm"><span class="l">5761. Avvim -- a city in Benjamin, also a people on the SW coast <b>...</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> Avim. Plural of Avviy; Avvim (as <b>inhabited</b> by Avvites), a place in Palestine (with<br> the article prefix) -- Avim. see HEBREW Avviy. 5760, 5761. Avvim. 5762 . <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/5761.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><p><a href="/library/josephus/the_antiquities_of_the_jews/chapter_5_after_what_manner.htm"><span class="l">After what Manner the Posterity of Noah Sent Out Colonies, and <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> From The Creation To The Death Of Isaac. CHAPTER 5. After What Manner The Posterity<br> Of Noah Sent Out Colonies, And <b>Inhabited</b> The Whole Earth. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 5 after what manner.htm</font><p><a href="/library/origen/origen_against_celsus/chapter_lxxvii_but_again_how.htm"><span class="l">But Again, How did He who Said, "Since a Divine Spirit <b>Inhabited</b> <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> Chapter LXXVII. But again, how did he who said, "Since a divine Spirit <b>inhabited</b><br> the body of? But again, how did he who said, "Since <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter lxxvii but again how.htm</font><p><a href="/library/origen/origen_against_celsus/chapter_lxxv_to_the_preceding.htm"><span class="l">To the Preceding Remarks He Adds the Following: "Since a Divine <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> Chapter LXXV. To the preceding remarks he adds the following: "Since a<br> divine Spirit <b>inhabited</b> the body? To the preceding remarks <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter lxxv to the preceding.htm</font><p><a href="/library/josephus/the_antiquities_of_the_jews/chapter_6_how_every_nation.htm"><span class="l">How Every Nation was Denominated from their First Inhabitants.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Japhet, the son of Noah, had seven sons: they <b>inhabited</b> so, that, beginning at the<br> mountains Taurus and Amanus, they proceeded along Asia, as far as the river <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 6 how every nation.htm</font><p><a href="/library/aphrahat/aphrahat_select_demonstrations/demonstration_xxi_of_persecution.htm"><span class="l">Demonstration xxi. --Of Persecution.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> These are all the years that Sodom and her daughters were laid waste before Jerusalem.<br> And she that was more just than Jerusalem is not yet <b>inhabited</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../aphrahat/aphrahat select demonstrations/demonstration xxi of persecution.htm</font><p><a href="/library/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_86_the_difference_of.htm"><span class="l">The Difference of Some Customs of the Galileans from those of <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> planted after the return out of Babylon, when you scarce find any mention of them<br> in the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah, but of those only who <b>inhabited</b> Judea and <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../lightfoot/from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 86 the difference of.htm</font><p><a href="/library/ballou/a_series_of_letters_in_defence_of_divine_revelation/extracts_no_iii.htm"><span class="l">Extracts No. Iii.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> and not triangles, all are agreed; and it would be impossible to raise a dispute<br> on the subject: but whether either or both of them are <b>inhabited</b>, or even <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../ballou/a series of letters in defence of divine revelation/extracts no iii.htm</font><p><a href="/library/pullan/the_books_of_the_new_testament/chapter_xii_the_epistle_of.htm"><span class="l">The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians</span></a> <br><b>...</b> If the word "Galatia" is used in a popular sense to describe the country <b>inhabited</b><br> by the Galatai, then it means North Galatia, a district in {151} the extreme <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../pullan/the books of the new testament/chapter xii the epistle of.htm</font><p><a href="/library/theophilus/theophilus_to_autolycus/chapter_xxxii_how_the_human_race.htm"><span class="l">How the Human Race was Dispersed.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> of the world by men was at first in three divisions,"in the east, and south, and<br> west: afterwards, the remaining parts of the earth were <b>inhabited</b>, when men <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../theophilus/theophilus to autolycus/chapter xxxii how the human race.htm</font><p><a href="/library/theophilus/theophilus_to_autolycus/chapter_iii_what_has_become_of.htm"><span class="l">What Has Become of the Gods?</span></a> <br><b>...</b> appearance even until now, and men have not ceased to be born, so that cities and<br> villages are full, and even the country places also are <b>inhabited</b>, how ought <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../theophilus/theophilus to autolycus/chapter iii what has become of.htm</font><a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/i/inhabited.htm"><span class="l"><b>Inhabited</b> (64 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b><b>Inhabited</b> (64 Occurrences). <b>...</b> (See NAS). Acts 9:32 Now it came to pass that Peter,<br> passing through all quarters, descended also to the saints who <b>inhabited</b> Lydda. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/i/inhabited.htm - 26k</font><p><a href="/topical/i/inhabit.htm"><span class="l">Inhabit (29 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Compare Cowper, Olney Hymns, XIV, "Who built it, who inhabits there?" So in 1<br> Chronicles 5:9 the King James Version, "And eastward he <b>inhabited</b> unto the <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/i/inhabit.htm - 16k</font><p><a href="/topical/u/uz.htm"><span class="l">Uz (8 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> (6) A kingdom, doubtless the same as that of Jeremiah 25:20 and <b>inhabited</b> by or<br> in subjection to the Edomites (Lamentations 4:21), and hence not far from Edom. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/u/uz.htm - 14k</font><p><a href="/topical/t/telassar.htm"><span class="l">Telassar (2 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 1. The Name and Its Meaning: This city, which is referred to by Sennacherib's<br> messengers to Hezekiah, is stated by them to have been <b>inhabited</b> by the "children <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/t/telassar.htm - 9k</font><p><a href="/topical/r/ruins.htm"><span class="l">Ruins (84 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> NIV). Job 15:28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one<br><b>inhabited</b>, which were ready to become heaps. (See NAS RSV). <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/r/ruins.htm - 31k</font><p><a href="/topical/w/wastes.htm"><span class="l">Wastes (33 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Isaiah 44:26 Confirming the word of His servant, The counsel of His messengers it<br> perfecteth, Who is saying of Jerusalem, She is <b>inhabited</b>, And of cities of <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/w/wastes.htm - 16k</font><p><a href="/topical/i/inhabitant.htm"><span class="l">Inhabitant (54 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Compare Cowper, Olney Hymns, XIV, "Who built it, who inhabits there?" So in 1<br> Chronicles 5:9 the King James Version, "And eastward he <b>inhabited</b> unto the <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/i/inhabitant.htm - 25k</font><p><a href="/topical/r/rebuilt.htm"><span class="l">Rebuilt (47 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> of Jacob's tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places; and the city shall<br> be built on its own hill, and the palace shall be <b>inhabited</b> after its own <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/r/rebuilt.htm - 20k</font><p><a href="/topical/k/kadmonites.htm"><span class="l">Kadmonites (1 Occurrence)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Orientals, the name of a Canaanitish tribe which <b>inhabited</b> the north-eastern<br> part of Palestine in the time of Abraham (Genesis 15:19). <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/k/kadmonites.htm - 7k</font><p><a href="/topical/u/uninhabited.htm"><span class="l">Uninhabited (8 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall<br> inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not <b>inhabited</b><b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/u/uninhabited.htm - 8k</font><p><a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/pre-existence-of-souls.html">What does the Bible say about the pre-existence of souls? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Abraham-promised-land.html">Why was Abraham promised land that belonged to others (Genesis 12)? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Midian-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Midian in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://clyx.com/term/inhabited.htm">Inhabited: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com</a><br /><br /><a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div><span class="encheading">Inhabited (64 Occurrences)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/2-1.htm">Luke 2:1</a></span><br />Now it happened in those days, that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/9-32.htm">Acts 9:32</a></span><br />Now it came to pass that Peter, passing through all quarters, descended also to the saints who <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> Lydda.<br /><span class="source">(DBY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/9-35.htm">Acts 9:35</a></span><br />And all who <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> Lydda and the Saron saw him, who turned to the Lord.<br /><span class="source">(DBY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/11-28.htm">Acts 11:28</a></span><br />and one from among them, by name Agabus, rose up and signified by the Spirit that there was going to be a great famine over all the <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> earth, which also came to pass under Claudius.<br /><span class="source">(DBY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/19-10.htm">Acts 19:10</a></span><br />And this took place for two years, so that all that <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.<br /><span class="source">(DBY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/19-17.htm">Acts 19:17</a></span><br />And this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> Ephesus, and fear fell upon all of them, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.<br /><span class="source">(DBY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/revelation/16-14.htm">Revelation 16:14</a></span><br />for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go forth to the kings of the whole <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.<br /><span class="source">(WEB)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/revelation/20-2.htm">Revelation 20:2</a></span><br />He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> earth, and bound him for a thousand years,<br /><span class="source">(WEB)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/36-20.htm">Genesis 36:20</a></span><br />These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,<br /><span class="source">(KJV WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/16-35.htm">Exodus 16:35</a></span><br />The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/16-22.htm">Leviticus 16:22</a></span><br />And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span>: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness. <br /><span class="source">(KJV WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-34.htm">Deuteronomy 2:34</a></span><br />We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:<br /><span class="source">(WEB ASV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/3-6.htm">Deuteronomy 3:6</a></span><br />We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> city, with the women and the little ones.<br /><span class="source">(WEB ASV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/8-12.htm">Deuteronomy 8:12</a></span><br />lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built and <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> fine houses,<br /><span class="source">(DBY YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/1-17.htm">Judges 1:17</a></span><br />Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites who <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was called Hormah.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/1-21.htm">Judges 1:21</a></span><br />The children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day. <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/11-21.htm">Judges 11:21</a></span><br />And the LORD, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them; so Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, who <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> that country.<br /><span class="source">(DBY RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_chronicles/5-9.htm">1 Chronicles 5:9</a></span><br />And eastward he <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead. <br /><span class="source">(KJV WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/15-28.htm">Job 15:28</a></span><br />He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span>, which were ready to become heaps.<br /><span class="source">(WEB ASV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/18-18.htm">Job 18:18</a></span><br />He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/22-20.htm">Job 22:20</a></span><br />saying,'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.' cities which are not <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/37-12.htm">Job 37:12</a></span><br />It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,<br /><span class="source">(See NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/68-6.htm">Psalms 68:6</a></span><br />God -- causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only -- the refractory have <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> a dry place.<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/94-17.htm">Psalms 94:17</a></span><br />Unless Jehovah 'were' a help to me, My soul had almost <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> silence.<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/107-4.htm">Psalms 107:4</a></span><br />They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in. <br /><span class="source">(See NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/107-7.htm">Psalms 107:7</a></span><br />he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/107-36.htm">Psalms 107:36</a></span><br />There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,<br /><span class="source">(See NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/120-5.htm">Psalms 120:5</a></span><br />Wo to me, for I have <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> Mesech, I have dwelt with tents of Kedar.<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/8-31.htm">Proverbs 8:31</a></span><br />Playing in his earth; and my delight was with the sons of men. <br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/13-20.htm">Isaiah 13:20</a></span><br />It will never be <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span>, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/44-26.htm">Isaiah 44:26</a></span><br />who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem,'She will be <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span>;' and of the cities of Judah,'They will be built,' and'I will raise up its waste places;'<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/45-18.htm">Isaiah 45:18</a></span><br />For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn't create it a waste, who formed it to be <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span>: "I am Yahweh; and there is no other.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/54-3.htm">Isaiah 54:3</a></span><br />For you shall spread aboard on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/54-4.htm">Isaiah 54:4</a></span><br />And desolate cities they cause to be <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span>. Fear not, for thou art not ashamed, Nor blush, for thou art not confounded, For the shame of thy youth thou forgettest, And the reproach of thy widowhood Thou dost not remember any more.<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/65-21.htm">Isaiah 65:21</a></span><br />And they have built houses, and <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span>, And planted vineyards, and eaten their fruit.<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-8.htm">Jeremiah 6:8</a></span><br />Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, a land not <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-6.htm">Jeremiah 17:6</a></span><br />For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-25.htm">Jeremiah 17:25</a></span><br />then shall there enter in, through the gates of this city, kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall be <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> for ever. <br /><span class="source">(DBY JPS NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-6.htm">Jeremiah 22:6</a></span><br />For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span>.<br /><span class="source">(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/30-18.htm">Jeremiah 30:18</a></span><br />Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places; and the city shall be built on its own hill, and the palace shall be <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> after its own manner.<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV DBY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/33-10.htm">Jeremiah 33:10</a></span><br />Thus said Jehovah: Again heard in this place of which ye are saying, Waste it 'is', without man and without beast, In cities of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem, That are desolated, without man, And without inhabitant, and without beast,<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-26.htm">Jeremiah 46:26</a></span><br />and I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span>, as in the days of old, says Yahweh.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-13.htm">Jeremiah 50:13</a></span><br />Because of the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span>, but she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-39.htm">Jeremiah 50:39</a></span><br />Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> forever; neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/12-20.htm">Ezekiel 12:20</a></span><br />The cities that are <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/26-17.htm">Ezekiel 26:17</a></span><br />They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, How you are destroyed, who were <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/26-19.htm">Ezekiel 26:19</a></span><br />For thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span>; when I shall bring up the deep on you, and the great waters shall cover you;<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/26-20.htm">Ezekiel 26:20</a></span><br />then will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span>; and I will set glory in the land of the living:<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/29-11.htm">Ezekiel 29:11</a></span><br />No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall pass through it, neither shall it be <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> forty years.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/34-13.htm">Ezekiel 34:13</a></span><br />I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> places of the country.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/35-9.htm">Ezekiel 35:9</a></span><br />I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span>; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.<br /><span class="source">(WEB ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-10.htm">Ezekiel 36:10</a></span><br />and I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it; and the cities shall be <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span>, and the waste places shall be built;<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-11.htm">Ezekiel 36:11</a></span><br />and I will multiply on you man and animal; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> after your former estate, and will do better to you than at your beginnings: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-33.htm">Ezekiel 36:33</a></span><br />Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span>, and the waste places shall be built.<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-35.htm">Ezekiel 36:35</a></span><br />They shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/38-12.htm">Ezekiel 38:12</a></span><br />to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are now <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span>, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/joel/3-20.htm">Joel 3:20</a></span><br />But Judah will be <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/amos/9-14.htm">Amos 9:14</a></span><br />And I have turned back 'to' the captivity of My people Israel, And they have built desolate cities, and <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span>, And have planted vineyards, and drunk their wine, And made gardens, and eaten their fruit.<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/zechariah/2-4.htm">Zechariah 2:4</a></span><br />and said to him, "Run, speak to this young man, saying,'Jerusalem will be <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/zechariah/7-7.htm">Zechariah 7:7</a></span><br />Aren't these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?'"<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/zechariah/9-5.htm">Zechariah 9:5</a></span><br />Ashkelon will see it, and fear; Gaza also, and will writhe in agony; as will Ekron, for her expectation will be disappointed; and the king will perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon will not be <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/zechariah/12-6.htm">Zechariah 12:6</a></span><br />In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.<br /><span class="source">(KJV JPS WBS YLT RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/zechariah/14-10.htm">Zechariah 14:10</a></span><br />All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and <span class="boldtext">inhabited</span> in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.<br /><span class="source">(KJV JPS WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/zechariah/14-11.htm">Zechariah 14:11</a></span><br />And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; 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