At that time, in the Bible, the boundaries of the Promised Land were from the River of Egypt (the Nile) to the Euphrates (Exodus 23:31). Today, it includes modern-day Israel, including Gaza and the West Bank, and Jordan, as well as parts of Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq....
Elisha’s request of Naaman to immerse himself seven times in the Jordan River in order to be healed and his “stretching himself” upon a child to raise him from the dead seem highly unusual. Was there any special meaning to Elisha’s actions? (Suppleme
(in the late 13th century) of the military chiefdoms ruled by Sihon and Og in the area east of theJordan River, the Hebrews held a covenant ceremony atShittim (northeast of the Dead Sea), which has been greatly elaborated upon in tradition as the “second giving of the Law,”Deuteronomy...
Abraham, the first of the Hebrew patriarchs and an important figure in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Gad, one of the 12 tribes of Israel that in biblical times composed the people of Israel who later became the Jewish people. The tribe was named after the elder of two sons born to Jacob and Zilpah, a maidservant of Jacob’s first wife, Leah. After enter