Luke 1:39
And Mary, rising up in those days, went into the hill country with haste, to a city of Judah,
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;
In Context
40and entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elizabeth.
Cross References
Joshua 10:40And Joshua smote the whole country, the mountain, and the south, and the lowland, and the hill-slopes, and all their kings: he let none remain, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Jehovah the God of Israel had commanded.
Joshua 20:7And they hallowed Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kirjath-Arba, that is, Hebron, in the hill-country of Judah.
Luke 1:65And fear came upon all who dwelt round about them; and in the whole hill-country of Judaea all these things were the subject of conversation.
Matthew Henry on Luke 1:27-39
The Birth of Christ Foretold. 26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, 27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. 28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. 29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. 30 And the angel said… Read the whole commentary →