Bible Verses About Holy Land

and the border hath gone down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east of Ain, and the border hath gone down, and hath smitten against the shoulder of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;

and the border hath gone down to the Jordan, and its outgoings have been at the Salt Sea; this is for you the land by its borders round about.'

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`These are the names of the men who give to you the inheritance of the land: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua son of Nun,

and one prince--one prince--for a tribe ye do take to give the land by inheritance.

`And these are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;

and of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, Shemuel son of Aminihud;

of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad son of Chislon;

and of the tribe of the sons of Dan, the prince Bukki son of Jogli;

of the sons of Joseph, of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh, the prince Hanniel son of Ephod;

and of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim, the prince Kemuel son of Shiphtan;

and of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun, the prince Elizaphan son of Parnach;

and of the tribe of the sons of Issachar, the prince Paltiel son of Azzan;

and of the tribe of the sons of Asher, the prince Ahihud son of Shelomi;

and of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali, the prince Pedahel son of Ammihud.'

These are those whom Jehovah hath commanded to give the sons of Israel inheritance in the land of Canaan.

`For Jehovah thy God is bringing thee in unto a good land, a land of brooks of waters, of fountains, and of depths coming out in valley and in mountain:

a land of wheat, and barley, and vine, and fig, and pomegranate; a land of oil olive and honey;

a land in which without scarcity thou dost eat bread, thou dost not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of its mountains thou dost dig brass;

`For the land whither thou art going in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt whence ye have come out, where thou sowest thy seed, and hast watered with thy foot, as a garden of the green herb;

but the land whither ye are passing over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys; of the rain of the heavens it drinketh water;

a land which Jehovah thy God is searching; continually are the eyes of Jehovah thy God upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the latter end of the year.

`For, if ye diligently keep all this command which I am commanding you--to do it, to love Jehovah your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cleave to Him,

then hath Jehovah dispossessed all these nations from before you, and ye have possessed nations, greater and mightier than you;

every place on which the sole of your foot treadeth is yours; from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Phrat, even unto the farther sea is your border;