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22 Bible Verses About Palestine and Israel

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Summary

  • God promises the land to Abram’s offspring in Genesis 12:7 and gives its borders “from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates” in Genesis 15:18.
  • Leviticus 25:23 says “the land is mine,” and 2 Chronicles 7:19-20 warns that Israel can be uprooted from it.
  • Ezekiel 47:22 gives foreigners living in the land an inheritance among the tribes, “as native-born Israelites.”
  • The KJV’s “Palestina” and “Palestine” translate the Hebrew for Philistia; the NIV does not use the name Palestine.
  • In Acts 1:6-7 Jesus declines to tell the disciples when the kingdom will be restored to Israel.

The Bible presents the land as a gift promised to Abraham’s descendants, held on God’s terms and lost in exile when those terms were broken. The promise runs from Genesis 12:1-3 and 15:18 through the law’s statement that “the land is mine” (Leviticus 25:23). Second Chronicles 7 ties the people’s hold on the land to their faithfulness, Psalm 137 and Jeremiah 29 speak from exile in Babylon, and the prophets look ahead to a Jerusalem where “nation will not take…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Strong’s Hebrew 6429, פְּלֶשֶׁת (Pelesheth): Philistia; used in Exodus 15:14 and Joel 3:4, where the King James Version has “Palestina” and “Palestine.” biblehub.com/hebrew/6429

Strong’s Greek 1093, γῆ (ge): earth, land, ground; used in Matthew 5:5. biblehub.com/greek/1093

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