The call of Eretz Israel, the biblical ‘promised land’, is one that both the secularists and the religious Zionists of Israel ...

Genesis 12:1-2 God instructed Abraham to leave his home and travel to Canaan, the Promised Land, which is today known as Israel. God asked Abraham to follow his rules and be a good example to others.

Only in the New Testament does the frequently used title for Palestine, “the land of promise,” occur (Heb. 11:9). In the four thousand years since the call of Abraham. Palestine has never ...

God instructed Abraham to leave his home and travel to Canaan, the Promised Land. Canaan was an ancient country close to modern-day Israel. In contrast with Abraham's home, Canaan was an arid ...

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 ...