Holy Land
66 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
36 sections
- A Sabbath of Rest Appointed For
- A Type of the Rest That Remains for Saints
- Abounded in Minerals
- All Inheritances In, Inalienable
- Allotment of, Specified
- Called: Glorious Land
- Called: Good Land
- Called: Land of Canaan
- Called: Land of Immanuel
- Called: Land of Israel
- Called: Land of Judah
- Called: Land of Promise
- Called: Land of the Hebrews
- Called: Palestine
- Called: Pleasant Land
- Called: The Land
- Called: The Lord's Land
- Conquered by Joshua
- Divided by Lot
- Divided Into: Four Provinces by the Romans
- Divided Into: Twelve Provinces by Solomon
- Divided Into: Two Kingdoms in the Time of Rehoboam
- Extensive Commerce of, in Solomon's Reign
- Extent of As at First Divided
- Extent of As Promised
- Extent of Under Solomon
- Extremely Fruitful
- Numerous Population of, in Solomon's Reign
- Obedience the Condition of Continuing In
- Original Inhabitants of, Expelled for Wickedness
- Promised to Abraham
- Promised to Given by Covenant to Israel
- Promised to Isaac
- Promised to Jacob
- Prosperity of, in Solomon's Reign
- Twelve Men Sent to Spy
A Sabbath of Rest Appointed For
- Leviticus 25:2–5 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD. …
A Type of the Rest That Remains for Saints
- Hebrews 4:1–2 Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it. …
- Hebrews 4:9 There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
- 1 Peter 1:4 and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,
Abounded in Minerals
- Deuteronomy 8:9 a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.
- Deuteronomy 33:25 May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze, and may your strength match your days.”
All Inheritances In, Inalienable
- Leviticus 25:10 So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.
- Leviticus 25:23 The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
Allotment of, Specified
- Joshua 14:1 Now these are the portions that the Israelites inherited in the land of Canaan, as distributed by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of Israel.
Called: Glorious Land
- Daniel 11:16 The invader will do as he pleases, and no one will stand against him. He will establish himself in the Beautiful Land, with destruction in his hand.
Called: Good Land
- Numbers 14:7 and said to the whole congregation of Israel, “The land we passed through and explored is an exceedingly good land.
- Deuteronomy 3:25 Please let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan — that pleasant hill country as well as Lebanon!”
Called: Land of Canaan
- Genesis 11:31 And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
- Leviticus 14:34 “When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a contamination of mildew into a house in that land,
Called: Land of Immanuel
- Isaiah 8:8 It will pour into Judah, swirling and sweeping over it, reaching up to the neck; its spreading streams will cover your entire land, O Immanuel!
Called: Land of Israel
- 1 Samuel 13:19 And no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “The Hebrews must not be allowed to make swords or spears.”
- Matthew 2:20–21 “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and go to the land of Israel, for those seeking the Child’s life are now dead.” …
Called: Land of Judah
- Isaiah 26:1 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation is established as its walls and ramparts.
Called: Land of Promise
- Hebrews 11:9 By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.
Called: Land of the Hebrews
- Genesis 40:15 For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”
Called: Palestine
- Exodus 15:14 The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the dwellers of Philistia.
- Isaiah 14:29 Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.
- Isaiah 14:31 Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! For a cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there are no stragglers in its ranks.
Called: Pleasant Land
- Psalm 106:24 They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.
- Daniel 8:9 From one of these horns a little horn emerged and grew extensively toward the south and the east and toward the Beautiful Land.
Called: The Land
- Leviticus 26:42 then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
- Luke 4:25 But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.
Called: The Lord's Land
- Hosea 9:3 They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
Conquered by Joshua
- Joshua 6:1 Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.
Divided by Lot
- Numbers 34:16–29 Then the LORD said to Moses, …
- Joshua 13:7–14 Now therefore divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.” …
Divided Into: Four Provinces by the Romans
- Luke 3:1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
Divided Into: Twelve Provinces by Solomon
- 1 Kings 4:7–19 Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel to provide food for the king and his household. Each one would arrange provisions for one month of the year, …
Divided Into: Two Kingdoms in the Time of Rehoboam
- 1 Kings 11:35–36 But I will take ten tribes of the kingdom from the hand of his son and give them to you. …
- 1 Kings 12:19–20 So to this day Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David. …
Extensive Commerce of, in Solomon's Reign
- 1 Kings 9:26–28 King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea. …
- 1 Kings 10:22–29 For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. …
Extent of As at First Divided
- Numbers 34:1–12 Then the LORD said to Moses, …
Extent of As Promised
- Genesis 15:18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land — from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates —
- Deuteronomy 1:7 Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the foothills, in the Negev, and along the seacoast to the land of the Canaanites and to …
- Joshua 1:4 Your territory shall extend from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great River Euphrates— all the land of the Hittites— and west as far as the Great Sea.
Extent of Under Solomon
- 1 Kings 4:21 And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
- 1 Kings 4:24 For Solomon had dominion over everything west of the Euphrates — over all the kingdoms from Tiphsah to Gaza — and he had peace on all sides.
- 2 Chronicles 9:26 He reigned over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt.
Extremely Fruitful
- Exodus 3:8 I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey— the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, …
- Numbers 13:27 And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!
- Deuteronomy 8:7–9 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills; …
- Deuteronomy 11:10–12 For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden. …
Numerous Population of, in Solomon's Reign
- 1 Kings 3:8 Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.
- 2 Chronicles 1:9 Now, O LORD God, let Your promise to my father David be fulfilled. For You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
Obedience the Condition of Continuing In
- Leviticus 26:3 If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,
- Deuteronomy 5:33 You must walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
- Deuteronomy 11:16–17 But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods, …
- Deuteronomy 11:22–25 For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow— to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him— …
Original Inhabitants of, Expelled for Wickedness
- Genesis 15:16 In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
- Exodus 23:23 For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them.
- Leviticus 18:25 Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.
- Deuteronomy 18:12 For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.
Promised to Abraham
- Genesis 12:7 Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
- Genesis 13:15 for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.
- Genesis 17:8 And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing— all the land of Canaan— as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”
Promised to Given by Covenant to Israel
- Exodus 6:4 I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.
Promised to Isaac
- Genesis 26:3 Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
Promised to Jacob
- Genesis 28:13 And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.
- Genesis 28:15 Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
- Genesis 35:12 The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”
Prosperity of, in Solomon's Reign
- 1 Kings 4:20 The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.
Twelve Men Sent to Spy
- Numbers 13:1–33 And the LORD said to Moses, …
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.