Land of Israel Land of Israel The Land of Israel () is the traditional Jewish name for an area of indefinite geographical extension in the Southern Levant. Related biblical, religious and historical English terms include the Land of Canaan, the Promised Land, the Holy Land, and Palestine (see also Israel (disambiguation)). The definitions of the limits of this territory vary between passages in the Hebrew Bible, with specific mentions in Genesis 15, Exodus 23, Numbers 34 and Ezekiel 47. Nine times elsewhere in the Bible, the settled land is referred as "from Dan to Beersheba, and three times it is referred as "from
Chapters and verses of the Bible of the Bible in the early 13th century. It is the system of Archbishop Langton on which the modern chapter divisions are based. While chapter divisions have become nearly universal, editions of the Bible have sometimes been published without them. Such editions, which typically use thematic or literary criteria to divide the biblical books instead, include John Locke's "Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul" (1707), Alexander Campbell's "The Sacred Writings" (1826), Daniel Berkeley Updike’s fourteen-volume "The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha," Richard Moulton's "The Modern Reader's Bible" (1907), Ernest Sutherland Bates's