What the Bible Says About Jews and Arabs

What the Bible Says About Jews and Arabs
Christian Bible - New International Version

The Call of Abram (Abraham) 
Genesis 12:1-3; Abraham - Father to Arabs & Jews

The Lord said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you."

"I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.  I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."

Where the Arab Nation Comes From
Genesis 16:1-4;  Hagar and Ishmael

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children.   But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar, so she said to Abram, "The Lord has kept me from having children.  Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her."

Abram agreed to what Sarai said.  So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.  He slept with Hagar, and she conceived.

The Angel said to Hagar - Genesis 16:11-12

The angel of the Lord also said to her:  "You are now with child and you will have a son.  You shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard of your misery.  He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers."

God establishes covenant with Issac (Jews)
Genesis 17:19-22

Then God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac.  I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.  And as for Ishmael, I have heard you:   I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers.  He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation, but my covenant I will establish with Issac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year."  When he had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.

God's blessing upon Isaac - Genesis 26:24-25

That night the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham.   Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham."

Isaac built an alter there and called on the name of the Lord.   There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.

God sets the boundaries of Canaan      (Israel)
Genesis 34:1-15

The Lord said to Moses, "Command the Israelites and say to them:    'When you enter Canaan, the land that will be allotted to you as an inheritance will have these boundaries:

Your southern side will include some of the Desert of Zin along the border of Edom.  On the east, your southern boundary will start from the end of the Salt Sea, cross south of Scorpion Pass, continue on to Zin and go south of Kedesh Barnea.   Then it will go to Hazar Addar and over to Azmon, where it will turn join the Wadi of Egypt and end at the sea.

Your western boundary will be the coast of the Great Sea.  This will be your boundary on the west.

For your northern boundary, run a line from the Great Sea to Mount Hor and from Mount Hor to Lebo Hamath.  Then the boundary will go to Zedad, continue to Ziphron and end at Hazar Enan.  This will be your boundary to the north.

For your eastern boundary, run a line from Hazar Enan to Shepham.   The boundary will go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Kinnereth.  Then the boundary will go down along the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea."

"This will be your land, with its boundaries on every side."

Moses commanded the Israelites:  "Assign this land by lot as an inheritance.   The Lord has ordered that it be given to the nine and a half tribes, because the families of the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.  These two and a half tribes have received their inheritance on the east side of the Jordon of Jericho, toward the sunrise."

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Remember Your God - Deuteronomy 6:10-12

When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you --a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant -- then when you eat and are satisfied, be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

The Death of Moses & The Promised Land
Deuteronomy 34:1-4

Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho.  There the Lord showed him the whole land - from Gilead to Dan, all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea, the Negev and whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar.  Then the Lord said to him, "This is the land I promised an oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, 'I will give it to your descendants.' I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it."

The Qur'an Proves That Israel Belongs to The Jews!

Islam: Holy Land Belongs to The Jewish People - [Surah 5:21] "O my people! enter the holy land which Allah hath assigned unto you, and turn not back Ignominiously, for then will ye be overthrown, to your own ruin."

http://www.templemount.org/quranland.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvBjHh01rYg
http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=12825

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