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• Numbers 13Bible

  Numbers 13 recounts how Moses sent twelve men, a leader from each tribe, to spy out the land of Canaan for forty days. Caleb urged the people to take the land, but the other spies brought up an evil report of it.

• LebanonBible

  Lebanon is a mountain range extending north to south, north of Israel. In the Bible it appears as the home of the cedar and as the source of the timber used to build Solomon's temple. It also frequently serves as a symbol of loftiness and glory.

• Numbers 20Bible

  Numbers 20 recounts the death of Miriam at Kadesh and the incident at the waters of Meribah, after which Moses and Aaron are told that they will not enter Canaan. The chapter also records Edom's refusal to let Israel pass through its territory and the death of Aaron on Mount Hor.

• KenizzitesBible

  The Kenizzites were one of the peoples living in the land promised to Abraham and are mentioned in Genesis 15:19. Caleb is called a "Kenezite," a term identical in Hebrew to the name of this people.

• Euphrates RiverBible

  The Euphrates is a great river of Western Asia that flows across Mesopotamia and still bears that name today. In the Bible it appears as one of the four rivers of Eden, as a boundary of the land promised to Abraham, and in scenes of judgment in the Book of Revelation.

• KenitesBible

  The Kenites were a nomadic people of the Old Testament. Scripture records that Moses' father-in-law belonged to this people, and through this connection they lived alongside Israel and maintained friendly relations with the Israelites.

• Land Flowing with Milk and HoneyBible

  An Old Testament idiom describing the abundance of the land of Canaan, which God promised to give to Israel. It first appears in Exodus 3:8 and recurs throughout the Pentateuch and the Prophets.

• Abrahamic CovenantBible

  The Abrahamic covenant is the covenant in which God promised Abraham and his descendants a great nation, land, and blessing, and declared that all the families of the earth would be blessed through him. It appears in Genesis 12–22.

• Joshua 14Bible

  Joshua 14 opens the distribution of the land west of the Jordan. It sets out the principle by which Eleazar and Joshua divide the land by lot among the nine and a half tribes. It also records how Caleb, at eighty-five, claims the hill country promised to him and receives Hebron as his inheritance.

• Seed of AbrahamBible

  The seed of Abraham is a biblical term for the descendants God promised to Abraham. In the Old Testament it refers to the people of Israel, descended through Isaac and Jacob. In the New Testament its meaning broadens to include Christ and those who believe in Christ.

• RephaimBible

  The Rephaim were an ancient people of great stature who, according to the Old Testament, lived east of the Jordan and in Canaan before Israel. In the poetic and prophetic books, the same word can also refer to the spirits of the dead.

• PatriarchBible

  The patriarchs are Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the founding ancestors of the people of Israel, together with Jacob's twelve sons. Their story is told in Genesis 12–50.

• Joshua 21Bible

  Joshua 21 records how the Levites received by lot forty-eight cities, together with their surrounding pasturelands, in which to dwell among the inheritances of the other tribes. The chapter closes by summarizing that God had fulfilled all His promises of land and rest.

• Joshua 1:8-9Bible Verses

  After the death of Moses, God told Joshua to meditate on the book of the law day and night and to observe it, encouraging him to "be strong and of a good courage." It is among the passages most often cited at times of new beginnings and challenges.

• GoshenBible

  Goshen was the land in Egypt where Jacob's family settled after going down there in the time of Joseph. In Exodus it appears as the land that God set apart as the dwelling place of the Israelites when He sent the plagues.

• Genesis 15Bible

  Genesis 15 is the chapter in which God promises the childless Abram descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven, along with the land of Canaan, and establishes a covenant through a ceremony in which a burning lamp passes between divided animals.

• Jeremiah 30Bible

  Jeremiah 30 is a prophecy of restoration in which God promises to bring again the captivity of Israel and Judah and return them to the land of their fathers. It speaks of "the time of Jacob's trouble" and the deliverance that follows, the healing of the people's wounds, and the covenant promise, "Ye shall be my people, and I will be your God."

• Isaiah 26Bible

  Isaiah 26 opens with a song to be sung "in that day" in the land of Judah. It speaks of the peace of those who trust in the Lord, judgment on the proud, prayer in distress, and the promise that the dead will live again.

• Ezekiel 48Bible

  Ezekiel 48 is the final chapter of the Book of Ezekiel. It divides the restored land among the twelve tribes of Israel in long east-west strips, places the sanctuary and the city in their midst, and closes with the promise that the city will be named "Jehovah-shammah" ("The LORD is there").

• 2 Chronicles 7:14Bible Verses

  Second Chronicles 7:14 records God's promise to Solomon after the dedication of the Temple: if "my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray" and turn from their wicked ways, he will heal their land. The verse is widely cited in movements of prayer for the nation, and there is debate over whether it can be applied to modern nations.