Bible Cross References
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Genesis 13:12-17
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Abram stayed in the land of Canaan, and Lot settled among the cities in the valley and camped near Sodom,
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whose people were wicked and sinned against the LORD.
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After Lot had left, the LORD said to Abram, "From where you are, look carefully in all directions.
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I am going to give you and your descendants all the land that you see, and it will be yours forever.
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I am going to give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them all; it would be as easy to count all the specks of dust on earth!
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Now, go and look over the whole land, because I am going to give it all to you."
Genesis 15:18-21
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Then and there the LORD made a covenant with Abram. He said, "I promise to give your descendants all this land from the border of Egypt to the Euphrates River,
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including the lands of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
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the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
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the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."
Numbers 34:2-15
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the following instructions for the people of Israel: "When you enter Canaan, the land which I am giving you, the borders of your territory will be as follows.
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The southern border will extend from the wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. It will begin on the east at the southern end of the Dead Sea.
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Then it will turn southward toward Akrabbim Pass and continue on through Zin as far south as Kadesh Barnea. Then it will turn northwest to Hazar Addar and on to Azmon,
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where it will turn toward the valley at the border of Egypt and end at the Mediterranean.
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"The western border will be the Mediterranean Sea.
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"The northern border will follow a line from the Mediterranean to Mount Hor
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and from there to Hamath Pass. It will continue to Zedad
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and to Ziphron, and will end at Hazar Enan.
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"The eastern border will follow a line from Hazar Enan to Shepham.
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It will then go south to Harbel, east of Ain, and on to the hills on the eastern shore of Lake Galilee,
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then south along the Jordan River to the Dead Sea. "These will be the four borders of your land."
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So Moses said to the Israelites, "This is the land that you will receive by drawing lots, the land that the LORD has assigned to the nine and one-half tribes.
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The tribes of Reuben and Gad and the eastern half of Manasseh have received their property, divided according to their families,
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on the eastern side of the Jordan, opposite Jericho."
Deuteronomy 32:8
The Most High assigned nations their lands; he determined where peoples should live. He assigned to each nation a heavenly being,
Joshua 12:7
Joshua and the people of Israel defeated all the kings in the territory west of the Jordan, from Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak in the south near Edom. Joshua divided this land among the tribes and gave it to them as a permanent possession.
Joshua 12:8
This portion included the hill country, the western foothills, the Jordan Valley and its foothills, the eastern slopes, and the dry country in the south. This land had been the home of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Joshua 14:1-21
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What follows is an account of how the land of Canaan west of the Jordan was divided among the people of Israel. Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders of the families of the Israelite tribes divided it among the population.
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As the LORD had commanded Moses, the territories of the nine and one-half tribes west of the Jordan were determined by drawing lots.
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Moses had already assigned the land east of the Jordan to the other two and one-half tribes. (The descendants of Joseph were divided into two tribes: Manasseh and Ephraim.) However, Moses gave the Levites no portion of the territory. Instead, they received cities to live in, with fields for their cattle and flocks.
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The people of Israel divided the land as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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One day some people from the tribe of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. One of them, Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, said to him, "You know what the LORD said in Kadesh Barnea about you and me to Moses, the man of God.
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I was forty years old when the LORD's servant Moses sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out this land. I brought an honest report back to him.
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The men who went with me, however, made our people afraid. But I faithfully obeyed the LORD my God.
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Because I did, Moses promised me that my children and I would certainly receive as our possession the land which I walked over.
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But now, look. It has been forty-five years since the LORD said that to Moses. That was when Israel was going through the desert, and the LORD, as he promised, has kept me alive ever since. Look at me! I am eighty-five years old
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and am just as strong today as I was when Moses sent me out. I am still strong enough for war or for anything else.
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Now then, give me the hill country that the LORD promised me on that day when my men and I reported. We told you then that the race of giants called the Anakim were there in large walled cities. Maybe the LORD will be with me, and I will drive them out, just as the LORD said."
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Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him the city of Hebron as his possession.
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Hebron still belongs to the descendants of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, because he faithfully obeyed the LORD, the God of Israel.
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Before this, Hebron was called the city of Arba. (Arba had been the greatest of the Anakim.) There was now peace in the land.
as thou comest
Genesis 13:10
Lot looked around and saw that the whole Jordan Valley, all the way to Zoar, had plenty of water, like the Garden of the LORD or like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD had destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.)
Gerar
Genesis 20:1
Abraham moved from Mamre to the southern part of Canaan and lived between Kadesh and Shur. Later, while he was living in Gerar,
Genesis 26:1
There was another famine in the land besides the earlier one during the time of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.
Gaza
Judges 16:1
One day Samson went to the Philistine city of Gaza, where he met a prostitute and went to bed with her.
Jeremiah 25:20
Sodom
Genesis 13:10-13
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Lot looked around and saw that the whole Jordan Valley, all the way to Zoar, had plenty of water, like the Garden of the LORD or like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD had destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.)
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So Lot chose the whole Jordan Valley for himself and moved away toward the east. That is how the two men parted.
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Abram stayed in the land of Canaan, and Lot settled among the cities in the valley and camped near Sodom,
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whose people were wicked and sinned against the LORD.
Genesis 14:2
went to war against five other kings: Bera of Sodom, Birsha of Gomorrah, Shinab of Admah, Shemeber of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (or Zoar).
Genesis 18:20
Then the LORD said to Abraham, "There are terrible accusations against Sodom and Gomorrah, and their sin is very great.
Genesis 19:24
Suddenly the LORD rained burning sulfur on the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
Genesis 19:25
and destroyed them and the whole valley, along with all the people there and everything that grew on the land.
Hosea 11:8
"How can I give you up, Israel? How can I abandon you? Could I ever destroy you as I did Admah, or treat you as I did Zeboiim? My heart will not let me do it! My love for you is too strong.