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Map showing one interpretation of the borders of the Promised Land, based on God's promise to Abraham (Genesis 15).

The Promised Land (Hebrew: הארץ המובטחת‎, translit.: ha-Aretz ha-Muvtachat) is another name for the Land of Israel, the region which, according to the Hebrew Bible, was promised by God to descendants of Abraham, through his son Isaac, and to the Israelites, descendants of Jacob, Abraham's grandson.

Mainstream Jewish tradition regards the promise as applying to all Jews, including converts and their descendants.

Divine promise

The promise that is the source of the term is contained in Genesis 15:18-21 of the Hebrew Bible, which describes what are known as "Borders of the Land" (Gevulot Ha-aretz)^[1] in Jewish tradition which define the full extent of the land promised to the descendants of Abraham through his son Isaac and grandson Jacob.^[2]

On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates - the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites."

Comment

Main article: Land of Israel

"The land" that is referred to in the promise is never in fact fully occupied by the descendants of Abraham.

References

See also

• Abrahamic Covenant
• Greater Israel
• Land of Israel

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