As people in the Holy Land celebrate Yom HaAtzmaut, Israel Independence Day, our friends at JNS have shared 68 amazing verses from Scripture on Israel in the Bible:
1. It is a Land that the Lord your God seeks out; the eyes of the Lord your God, are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. DEUTERONOMY (11:12)
2. I will return the captivity of my people Israel, and they will rebuild desolate cities and settle them. AMOS (9:14)
3. A Land where you will eat bread without poverty—you will lack nothing there. DEUTERONOMY (8:9)
4. He brought us to this place and He gave us this Land, a Land flowing with milk and honey. DEUTERONOMY (26:9)
5. There shall be no woman who loses her young or is barren in your Land. EXODUS (23:26)
6. This Land shall become yours as an inheritance. EZEKIEL (47:14)
7. Let it be known to the king that the Jews who went up from you have arrived in Jerusalem. EZRA (4:12)
8. The people all assembled as one man to Jerusalem. EZRA (3:1)
9. Jacob arose from his sleep and said, “Surely God is present in this place and I did not know!” GENESIS (28:16)
10. He planted a tree in Beer-sheba, and there he proclaimed in the Name of the Lord, God of the Universe. GENESIS (21:33)
Read more about Israel in the Bible and explore all 68 verses at JNS.
