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This map of ancient Israel features the biblical boundaries of the Land of Israel as described in Genesis 15:18 and Genesis 17:8. Dan is described in the Bible as the northernmost city of the Kingdom of Israel. Be’er Sheva is described in the Bible as the southernmost city settled by the Israelites.
Map of the Natural Features of the Land of Ancient Israel. During Old Testament times Israel was referred to originally as the land of Canaan, which was the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. The entire land of Canaan was approximately 6,6oo square miles.
- From Sinai to Lebanon– The Medium Map
- From Dan to Beer Sheva– The Small Map
- From The Nile to The Euphrates– The Expansive Map
- Squaring The Promises to The Patriarchs with The Map of The Conquest
- Modern Versus Traditional Premises
The “Land of Canaan” delimited in Numbers 34 includes the Negev, the Philistine coast, the coast of Lebanon at least as far north as the Beirut region (if not beyond), parts of the Lebanese Beqa‘ and southern Syria, but not the Golan and Transjordan.This delineation of borders is similar to some others in which “the Brook of Egypt” and/or Kadesh(-b...
One of these can first be seen in Moses’ vision of the Land from the peak of Mount Nebo in Deut. 34:1-3, from Dan in the north to the Negev in the south. “From Dan to Beer-sheba,” is the schematized extent of the area actually settled by the tribes of Israel, and thus do not include the area north of Dan or Mount Hermon and or the Philistine and Ph...
A more difficult issue is the relationship between the Numbers 34 “Land of Canaan” and the land promised to Abraham in “the Covenant of the Cuts/Pieces” (ברית בין הבתרים) in Genesis 15:18-21: This description of the Promised Land includes everything south and west of the Euphrates, including all of Syria, the land of Canaan/Israel, the Phoenician a...
The obvious differences between the descriptions of “the Promised Land” on one hand and those of “the Land of Canaan” on the other raise an exegetical dilemma: is it possible that God promised the Patriarchs that their descendants would inherit a huge swath of land, but when the time came, only ordered Moses and Joshua to conquer a small part of th...
Modern scholars look at the different geographical descriptions of the land and try to understand what each represented to their respective authors. Since most academics believe that the Torah—and certainly the Bible—developed over time and reflects more than one viewpoint and author, contradictory images of the extent of the land are not troubling...
The Land of Israel ( Hebrew: אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל, Modern: ʾEreṣ Yīsraʾel, Tiberian: ʾEreṣ Yīsrāʾēl) is the traditional Jewish name for an area of the Southern Levant. Related biblical, religious and historical English terms include the Land of Canaan, the Promised Land, the Holy Land, and Palestine.
The map on this page shows how the Promised Land was divided and occupied amongst the twelve tribes of Israel. The tribes are named after the sons of Jacob. The patriarch had his name changed to Israel after wrestling with and prevailing over an angel (see Genesis 32).
Map of Israel in the Time of Jesus. ( Enlarge) ( PDF for Print) (Freely Distributed) Map of First Century Israel with Roads. Political map of Israel during New Testament times, when Pontius Pilate was procurator of Judea and Herod was Tetrarch of Galilee (Luke 3:1).
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