Through sacrifice and unwavering faith, Abraham’s covenant with God prefigures the greater fulfillment in Christ, as depicted ...

Genesis 12:1-2 God instructed Abraham to leave his home and travel to Canaan, the Promised Land, which is today known as Israel. God asked Abraham to follow his rules and be a good example to others.

Abraham was the founder of Judaism and was the first to make a covenant with God. The first part of the covenant is known as the promised land and can be found in Genesis 12:1, where Abraham is ...

The patriarchs in the Bible were the fathers of the nation of Israel: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Through these three men, the ...

According to tradition, it was beneath this tree that Abram (not yet Abraham) pitched a tent and built an altar to the Lord of Israel after God’s promise of the land of Canaan to him and his ...

God instructed Abraham to leave his home and travel to Canaan, the Promised Land. Canaan was an ancient country close to modern-day Israel. In contrast with Abraham's home, Canaan was an arid ...

On November 19, 1863, near the site of the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln offered a ...

1 Zanoah, situated in the Promised Land or Canaan, is mentioned in the Bible story of Nehemiah as a town resettled by Jewish exiles returning from Babylonian captivity. These residents were ...

God would give him and his family a land of their own to live in. God had promised Abraham that he and his wife Sarah would have a son. When Abraham told Sarah about this she laughed because she ...