Generally in the Bible a "country" means a political subdivision ruled by a king, or sometimes a tribe with a territory ruled by a king or chieftain. Others are what we now call city-states, with surrounding farm areas. In almost all cases these countries were far smaller than our modern idea of countries, though Egypt and Assyria would be exceptions. Sometimes the word is used to refer to countryside, a wide area with no consideration of boundaries as when the twelve Israelites were sent to spy out the country.

(Referenties: Arcana Coelestia 3816 [3], 6818, 6820, 6821; Charity 83, 85; True Christian Religion 305)

2247. 'Abraham still stood before Jehovah' means the Lord's thought from the Human which was joined to the Divine in the manner stated above. This is clear from the representation in this chapter of 'Abraham' as the Lord as regards the Human, and from its being said that he stood before Jehovah. From this it follows without explanation that it was the thought from the Human which was joined to the Divine in the manner stated at the start of this chapter, and also above in 2245.