What does the Bible say about israel and palestine?

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• Genesis 15:18

  In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

• Joshua 1:2-3

  [2] Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you, and all this people, to the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel. [3] Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread on, to you have I given it, as I spoke to Moses.

• Judges 2:3

  Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be [as thorns] in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.

• Leviticus 25:23

  "'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

• Ezekiel 36:1-38

  [1] You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh. [2] Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! and, The ancient high places are ours in possession; [3] therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people; [4] therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are round about; [5] therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey. [6] Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations: [7] therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I have sworn, [saying], Surely the nations that are round about you, they shall bear their shame. [8] But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come. [9] For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and you shall be tilled and sown; [10] and I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built; [11] and I will multiply on you man and animal; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better [to you] than at your beginnings: and you shall know that I am Yahweh. [12] Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no more henceforth bereave them of children. [13] Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because they say to you, You [land] are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation; [14] therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your nation any more, says the Lord Yahweh; [15] neither will I let you hear any more the shame of the nations, neither shall you bear the reproach of the peoples any more, neither shall you cause your nation to stumble any more, says the Lord Yahweh. [16] Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, [17] Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings: their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. [18] Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols; [19] and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them. [20] When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people of Yahweh, and are gone forth out of his land. [21] But I had regard for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, where they went. [22] Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I don't do [this] for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, where you went. [23] I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, says the Lord Yahweh, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. [24] For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. [25] I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. [26] A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. [27] I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them. [28] You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. [29] I will save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you. [30] I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations. [31] Then shall you remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. [32] Nor for your sake do I [this], says the Lord Yahweh, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel. [33] Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built. [34] The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by. [35] They shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited. [36] Then the nations that are left round about you shall know that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate: I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it. [37] Thus says the Lord Yahweh: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock. [38] As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

• Genesis 12:1-3

  [1] Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you. [2] I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you, and make your name great. You will be a blessing. [3] I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. In you will all of the families of the earth be blessed."

• Zephaniah 2:4-7

  [4] For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up. [5] Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of Yahweh is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, that there will be no inhabitant. [6] The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks. [7] The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for Yahweh, their God, will visit them, and restore them.

• Psalms 83:1-18

  [1] > God, don't keep silent. Don't keep silent, And don't be still, God. [2] For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads. [3] They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones. [4] "Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more." [5] For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you. [6] The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites; [7] Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; [8] Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah. [9] Do to them as you did to Midian, As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon; [10] Who perished at Endor, Who became as dung for the earth. [11] Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; Yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna; [12] Who said, "Let us take possession Of God's pasturelands." [13] My God, make them like tumbleweed; Like chaff before the wind. [14] As the fire that burns the forest, As the flame that sets the mountains on fire, [15] So pursue them with your tempest, And terrify them with your storm. [16] Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek your name, Yahweh. [17] Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish; [18] That they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, Are the Most High over all the earth.

• Zechariah 12:1-6

  [1] An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says: [2] "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and on Judah also will it be in the siege against Jerusalem. [3] It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it. [4] In that day," says Yahweh, "I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. [5] The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, 'The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Yahweh of Hosts their God.' [6] In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.

• Exodus 3:8

  I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

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