Mini Study: Greater Israel

When we think of the land of Israel, many of us tend to think of the small sliver of land along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. While this is currently the established land of the State of Israel/Palestine, the boundaries of Israel according to the Elohim (God) of the Hebrews is much larger. Here are some Biblical references of what the boundaries of Israel were according to YAH:

On the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying:

“To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates — 19 the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”

-Genesis 15:18–21

“The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain. 7 Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain, in the mountains…