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By Stephen M. Miller

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Maps related to Promised Land boundaries

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The Casual English Bible® maps tell Bible stories in a captivating way that engages even people who have never read the Bible. Lavishly detailed maps only make the stories of Jesus and others more compelling and easier to picture and to understand.

These 3D-style maps of Bible lands are created from blended high resolution satellite images, matched to precise elevation data from international space agencies.

How to search for maps

—Type “Galilee” into the Casual English Bible’s map search engine, below. Instantly, you’ll see dozens of beautiful maps…many in 3D style. Each one tracks with a different Bible story. These aren’t generic maps with a hundred place names.
—Type “Samson” into the Bible map search engine. You’ll see the tiny village where he lived in the Judean foothills below Jerusalem.
—Type “Corinthians” and you’ll see a gallery full of maps associated with Paul’s letters of 1, 2 Corinthians, to the church in Corinth, Greece.

3D sense of the lay of the land

Get a feel for the lay of the land:

—Ararat Mountains, where Noah’s boat ran aground. The Bible doesn’t say it was Mount Ararat.
—Judean hills where Joshua and the Israelites found most of their battles for the Promised Land. They avoided the plains, where their enemies with armored chariots had the advantage over Israel’s foot soldiers.
—Jesus’ 20-mile climb from Jericho and the Jordan River Valley upward half a mile high, to the crest of the Mount of Olives, overlooking Jerusalem.
—One surprise for some readers is the Jesus Triangle, a plug of ground between three cities. It’s where Jesus spent most of his ministry time. A person can walk that entire triangle in a single day. Type “Jesus triangle” to see it.

Abraham’s Promised Land Plus

map of Abraham's Promised Land

Abraham's Promised Land Plus

Bible Book: Genesis Type: Maps Location: Asher, Canaan, Israel, Promised Land boundaries Era: Israel’s founding fathers

Promised Land Boundaries

Map Boundaries of the Promised Land God gave to Abraham

Abe gets Israel and beyond

The boundary of the land God promised to Abraham extends beyond Israel, north to the Euphrates River. That's Syrian's northern boundary with Turkey. The land also stretches east into what is now the country of Jordan.

Different versions of the boundaries

The Bible has different versions of the boundaries of the Promised Land, that God described to Abraham, Moses, and Joshua.

Promise to Abraham

The promise to Abraham, found in Genesis 15:18-21, talks about of the land God will give to his descendants. God says he'll extend the land from the Euphrates River in the east, to the brook of Egypt in the west. This region would include the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
This promise established the idea of a homeland and set the stage for the future exodus from Egypt.

Promise to Moses

Moses, in Deuteronomy 34:1-4, reports a detailed description of the land promised to the Israelites. The boundaries mentioned in this passage include the Negev desert in the south, the Lebanon mountains in the north, the River Euphrates in the east, and the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
This version of the promise differed from Abraham’s in terms of the specific territories included.

Land captured by Joshua

Finally, in the book of Joshua, the promise is fulfilled as they enter the land of Canaan. According to Joshua 1:4, God promised the land promised from the great Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. However, the northernmost boundary fell far short of that: Mount Hermon. And the southern boundary extended to the desert of Paran.
Throughout ancient Jewish history, the actual boundaries varied greatly. King Solomon controlled the largest swath of land, controlling his neighboring nations to the far extend of God's promise to Abraham. But that boundary was short-lived. Israel disappeared when Assyrian and Babylonian invaders destroyed the cities and deported most survivors of the wars in the 700's and 500's BC.
Abe gets Israel and beyond
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