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Jan 4, 2022 · Yes, God promised Abraham land that belonged to others. The reasons for this transfer of land include the need to punish the Canaanites’ sin and the need for God’s chosen people to have a land of their own, eventually to become the birthplace of the Messiah.
The Promised Land (Hebrew: הארץ המובטחת, translit.: ha'aretz hamuvtakhat; Arabic: أرض الميعاد, translit.: ard al-mi'ad) is Middle Eastern land in the Levant that Abrahamic religions (which include Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and others) claim God promised and subsequently gave to Abraham (the legendary patriarch in ...
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A general and incomplete description of the Promised Land is given in Genesis 12:5-7 and Genesis 24:7 . In verse 5 we are told that Abram and his wife Sarai traveled through the land of Canaan only as far as Shechem to the oak of Moreh. The description is a partial or incomplete one. Then God told Abram this is the land that I will give to your des...
In Genesis 15 God meets Abram again promising him the land of Canaan and defining its boundaries. Now a fuller description of the land was given to Abram. Now the land stretched from the Nile River of Egypt to the Euphrates River in Mesopotamia (Genesis 15:18-21). Exodus also describes the promised land as stretching from the boundary of the Red Se...
Later in Numbers 34:1-13 God gives Moses a more detailed description of the Promised Land the Israelites would occupy. In Numbers 34:2, God explicitly states the Israelites were inheriting the land of Canaan. The western border of the Promised Land started with the coastline along the Sea of Galilee. The northern border is defined by a horizontal l...
Full occupation of the Promised Land became a reality under King David and King Solomon when the Israelites possessed all of the land that God had promised Abraham in Genesis 12, 15, 18, and 22. However, it was temporary and did not last. At Israel’s height, their land stretched from the border of Egypt to the River Euphrates: The promised land inc...
Palestine was a name already in existence and used by ancient writers before Jesus was born. Today, some claim that the Israelites stole the land on which the nation of Israel resides. But the preceding discussion reveals that God gave the land to Abraham and subsequently to Israel. The land was called Palestine during the time of Herodotus, Aristo...
Mar 3, 2022 · In the Land of Ur, modern day Iraq, one man was called by God to go elsewhere, to follow him in faith to a land that would be for his descendants - Abraham. Genesis records that God told Abraham about the Hebrew people spending 400 years in Egypt, and then be called out to inhabit the land of Canaan, “On that day the Lord made a covenant with ...
The Abrahamic covenant. The covenant between Abraham and God consisted of three separate parts: the promised land. the promise of the descendants. the promise of blessing and redemption. Key...
But God promised to give possession of the land to Abraham and his descendants, even though he did not yet have a child. Revelation 21:7 The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.
God told Abraham to leave his country, his family, and his father’s house and go “to a land that I will show you” (Gen. 12:1). God then led Abraham to the land that would belong to his descendants forever.
