What the Bible and history tell us about the claim that God gave the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants.

Abraham was the founder of Judaism and was the first to make a covenant with God. The first part of the covenant is known as the promised land and can be found in Genesis 12:1, where Abraham is ...

God would give him and his family a land of their own to live in. God had promised Abraham that he and his wife Sarah would have a son. When Abraham told Sarah about this she laughed because she ...

According to tradition, it was beneath this tree that Abram (not yet Abraham) pitched a tent and built an altar to the Lord of Israel after God’s promise of the land of Canaan to him and his ...

From Abraham's troubling ... honoring a vow. God commands the Israelites to destroy the Canaanite nations-men, women, children, and animals-while they conquer the Promised Land.

On November 19, 1863, near the site of the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War, President Abraham ... promised “that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God ...

In the Book of Genesis, God promises a wandering herder named Abraham that he will be “the father of many ... Despite the varied and nuanced concepts of how to settle in “the promised land” found ...