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8 results for "Abraham"
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Canaan Place
Canaan is the land promised to Abraham and his descendants - illegally seized by Ham's son in Jubilees, contested through the patriarchal period, and finally co…
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Ur of the Chaldees Place
Ur of the Chaldees is the Mesopotamian city where Abraham was born amid widespread idol worship - the place where his faith was literally tested by fire before …
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Dan / Laish Place
Dan is the northern location where Abraham ambushed and routed the coalition of four kings to rescue Lot - marking the furthest extent of the promised land's bo…
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Bethel Place
Bethel is the sacred site where Jacob beheld angels ascending and descending on a ladder reaching to heaven - a place where the divine and earthly realms visibl…
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Hebron / Machpelah Place
Hebron is the ancestral burial ground where Abraham purchased the cave of Machpelah - the first permanent territorial claim in the promised land and resting pla…
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Moab Place
Moab is the territory east of the Dead Sea occupied by the descendants of Lot - a nation that repeatedly interacts with Israel as both neighbor and adversary th…
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Midian Place
Midian is the desert territory east of the Gulf of Aqaba where Moses spends years in exile tending flocks - the place of his marriage to Zipporah, his encounter…
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Elam Place
Elam is the powerful eastern kingdom whose king Chedorlaomer leads a coalition of four kings against the cities of the plain - the conflict that draws Abraham i…