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Next File Matlotlo a Tsoang Bibeleng. Recommended Comments. Join the conversation You can post now and register later. Add a comment Insert image from URL. You will cations and to see how they relate, one to the find Tarsus and other notable ane cities on the map here. After those two, the maps are basically ised Land, sou can better un in historical order. Citos or details on a map erstand prophecies that men telate to events of a certain period.
While the Index pages does not include every site named on the maps, it ean usually help you to find which maps relate to the point you are cur rently researching The map in the center spread pages has the largest collection of towns i the Promised Land, The Map Legend will help ou to find the Levie cities and the sin cities of refuge as well as to know whether « place was Sometimes you will want to atta cusuty PROMISED I mentioned in the Hebrew Scriptures, the Greek Scriptures, or both.
Aso, it was not possible to fit on it every city and town, such as all in the lists of tribal boundaries. Jos, chaps. Caesarea Moib Corinth Patmos.
What route would Abraham take? From Chaldea, a region also called Sumer or Shinar, it might seem easy to go due west. Why go way up to Haran? Ur lay near the castern end of the Fertile Crescent. This area may formerly have had a more mod- erate climate, Below the curve of the crescent lay the Syro-Arabian Desert, marked by lime- stone hills and sandy plains.
Some caravans might cross from the Euphrates to Tadmor and then to Da- mascus, but Abraham did not lead his family and herds through such a wilderness.
Rather, Abraham went up the Euphra tes River valley to Haran. From there he could follow a trade route to a ford at Car- chemish and then head south by Damascus and on to what came to be called the Sca Euphrates River near Babylon Abraham lived in Beersheba and Fs pastured flocks nearby Bf Via Maris.
How- ever, Abraham traveled through the mountains of Samaria, finally tenting at Shechem. In time, he continued down that highland route.
Follow him as you read Genesis Later their son Jacob Israel made a simi- lar long trip to marry a worshiper of Jeho- vah. Jacob took a somewhat different route back to his land. After he forded the Jabbok near Penucl, Jacob wrestled with an angel.
Ge ; , Esau met him in that area, and then each went to reside in a different region —Ge , Where did they head, and how did they reach the Jordan River to enter the Promised Land? Their goal was the land of Canaan, yet Mo- ses did not take the shortest route—about miles along the sandy coast—which would ht through Philistia, enemy terri- he head across the vast center of the Sinai Peninsula, where intense heat baked the gravel and limestone plateau.
No, Moses led the people south, down the narrow coastal plain. The first camp was at Marah, where Jeho- vah made bitter water turn sweet. At Rephidim, water was an issue, attacking Amalekites were van- quished, and Moses" father-in-law urged him to get help from capable men. Moses then led Israel toward the mountains farther south, camping at Mount Sinai.
There God's people received the Law, built the tab- ernacle, and offered sacrifices. De I:1, 2. When it was finally time for Israel to ap- proach the Promised Land.
They had to wind down into and climb back out of formida- ble gorges—the Zered and the Arnon nearly 1, feet deep ,—De , 14, Finally, the Israelites reached Mount Nebo. Miriam had died at Kadesh, and Aaron, at Mount Hor. Moses now died in sight of the land he had desired to enter. De ; It fell to Joshua to lead Israel into the land, ending a journey begun 40 years earlier —Jos
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