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Canaan | Canaan

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It's difficult when an area is known by many names. The Holy Land, Palestine, Canaan, Israel, Phoenicia, Judah ... someone would have to spend a lot of time studying religious history and biblical geography to understand it completely. It's a lot like Russia, USSR, Ukraine, Soviet Union, etc. Wars...
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It would make it easier to understand if it were the Twelve Tribes of Jacob instead of the Twelve Tribes of Israel (Jacob's name later became Israel). All the tribes are the descendants of Jacob who ruled over a portion of Canaan territory around 1800 B.C.E. In the Book of Genesis, Jacob was...
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Moses was the guy who well over a thousand years ago led the Israelites out of Egypt and not to the "Promised Land" of Canaan but to a hill overlooking it. The Israelites leaving Egypt is called the "Exodus". Canaan was the Israelites' "Land of Milk and Honey" which they believed was their destiny...
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Where exactly is "The Promised Land"? And what's all the singing about the River Jordan? Isn't it interesting that the River Jordan is sung about by so many people from such diverse backgrounds? It was over three-thousand-years-ago above the River Jordan that Moses looked down upon the promised...