SSC
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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Iraq
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Israel
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Jordan
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Syria
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Detailed explanation-1: -Numbers 34:1–13 uses the term Canaan strictly for the land west of the Jordan, but Land of Israel is used in Jewish tradition to denote the entire land of the Israelites.
Detailed explanation-2: -The land known as Canaan was situated in the territory of the southern Levant, which today encompasses Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, and the southern portions of Syria and Lebanon.
Detailed explanation-3: -Another popular understanding of Israel as the Promised Land comes from Genesis 17, where God’s covenant with Abraham and his offspring is affirmed, and God promises to be the God of Abraham’s offspring and gift them the land of Canaan for “a perpetual holding.”
Detailed explanation-4: -You see, Eretz Yisrael or Israel is not just the land God promised to Abraham and his descendants. It is not only the “holy land” at the very center and core of all Jewish beliefs and practices-it is so much more. Israel, for the Jew today, is God comforting His people.