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The name Havilah appears in Genesis 25:18, where it defines the territory inhabited by the Ishmaelites as being "from Havilah to Shur, opposite (or "east of" according to other translations) Egypt in the direction of Assyria"; and in the Books of Samuel (1 Samuel 15:7–8), which states that king Saul smote the Amalekites who were living there ...
Shur (Hebrew: שור, romanized: Šūr, sometimes rendered in translations as Sur) is a location mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible.. James K. Hoffmeier believes that the 'way of Shur' was located along the Wadi Tumilat — an arable strip of land to the east of the Nile Delta, serving as the ancient transit route between Ancient Egypt and Canaan across the Sinai Peninsula.
It is found in the biblical verses: [2] 1. Judges 20:1 during the Battle of Gibeah at the end of the Book of Judges "Then all Israel from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came together as one and assembled before the LORD in Mizpah."
Such natural resources correspond to the ones associated with the land of Havilah in Genesis. [8] [9] Dan'el Kahn of the University of Haifa suggested that the name Pishon might come from Egyptian word pA-Shen, meaning the ocean. As can be seen from Babylonian Map of the World, the ocean can be referred to as river in the ancient Near East. [10]
Absalom's Monument; Achaia; Admah; Ai; Akko; Akkad – Mesopotamian state; Allammelech – within the Tribe of Asher land, described in the Book of Joshua. [1]Allon Bachuth; Alqosh, in the Nineveh Plains, mentiomed in the Book of Nahum
English: Map of the territories allotted to the twelve tribes of Israel according to the Book of Joshua, chapters 13–19, before Dan moved northward. Some tribes had trouble conquering their allotted territories; the map does not show successful conquests.
Location of biblical Geshur (top right area, east of the Sea of Galilee) Geshur (Biblical Hebrew: גְּשׁוּר, romanized: Gəšūr) [1] was a territory in the ancient Levant mentioned in the early books of the Hebrew Bible and possibly in several other ancient sources, located in the region of the modern-day Golan Heights. [2]
Map of Eretz Israel in 1695 Amsterdam Haggada by Abraham Bar-Jacob The term "Land of Israel" is a direct translation of the Hebrew phrase ארץ ישראל ( Eretz Yisrael ), which occasionally occurs in the Bible , [ 12 ] and is first mentioned in the Tanakh in 1 Samuel 13:19 , following the Exodus , when the Israelite tribes were already ...