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"According to the Bible, the Land of Israel (Hebrew: Eretz Yisrael) was "promised" to the descendants of Hebrew patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob by God, making it the Promised Land." I don't think this is correct - the "Promised Land" was a much larger area than "Eretz Yisrael".24.64.166.191 05:56, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

There are all sorts of disputes about what the exact boundaries of the "promised land" were/are, but whatever they were they constituted "Eretz Yisrael". Jayjg ^(talk) 17:53, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Message to Metros232 2 Message to Zsinj 3 Move 4 List all references 5 Message to Chesdovi 6 Why does the map not show to the Euphrates? 7 Merging this article and Land of Israel

[edit] Message to Metros232

The officially recognised version of the borders of the promised land is that which was declared by theodor herzl, in effect the founder of israel as we know it today, in collaboration with the rothschilds, and which version was presented by rabbi fischmann to the United Nations. You do not get any more official or credible and informed than that. I will post the corrected version of this article once more in seven days' time unless I have received compelling information to the contrary before then. In the meantime I would request that you refrain from publishing the grossly misleading and deceptive article that appeared here previously. In future I will report you and anyone else who outrageously deletes an edit without first resolving the disputed information, and I'll thus have your IP blocked from ever accessing this resource again. Rikridgeway ^(talk) 17 January 2007

[edit] Message to Zsinj

The officially recognised version of the borders of the promised land is that which was declared by theodor herzl, in effect the founder of israel as we know it today, in collaboration with the rothschilds, and which version was presented by rabbi fischmann to the United Nations. You do not get any more official or credible and informed than that. I will post the corrected version of this article once more in seven days' time unless I have received compelling information to the contrary before then. In the meantime I would request that you refrain from publishing the grossly misleading and deceptive article that appeared here previously. In future I will report you and anyone else who outrageously deletes an edit without first resolving the disputed information, and I'll thus have your IP blocked from ever accessing this resource again. Rikridgeway ^(talk) 17 January 2007

[edit] Move

This article ought to be renamed to "Promised Land" (capital L). Are there any objections?--Doron 23:43, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List all references

There are many more instances in the Bible which recall G-d’s promise to give the Jewish people the land, these should be added. Chesdovi 11:06, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Message to Chesdovi

Could you explain the point of underlining all lines which refer to the "giving" of the land in this article? BongoPedro 11:43, 17 Sept 2007

• It is to highlight where in the passage the promise is mentioned. This is helpful it the longer passages. Chesdovi 11:54, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

i am so cool —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.200.21.218 (talk) 01:41, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why does the map not show to the Euphrates?

It's in the text. The map is derived from the text. So... -- 12.116.162.162 17:43, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

The map is not derived from the text, it is derived from the two passages in the Bible, Numbers 34:1-12 and Ezekiel 47:13-20. Neither mention the Euphrates, so it is not on the map.

The Euphrates is mentioned in Genesis 15:18-21. I chose not to map this passage because i) the border is too vague to draw on a map, and ii) it is contradicted by Numbers and Ezekiel, both more detailed and very different. Emmanuelm (talk) 16:54, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Discussion copied to Image talk:Map Land of Israel.jpg

You happy now? Emmanuelm (talk) 15:06, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merging this article and Land of Israel

Quick survey. Do you want this article merged with Land of Israel?

yes. The two concepts are essentially identical; a paragraph called promised land ought to be enough. Emmanuelm (talk) 15:06, 30 March 2008 (UTC)