North country

A general name for the countries that lay north of Palestine. Most of the invading armies entered Palestine from the north (Isa 41:25; Jer 1:14, Jer 1:15; Jer 50:3, Jer 50:9, Jer 50:41; Jer 51:48; Ezek 26:7).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.