Bible Verses About Israel and Palestine
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for israel and palestine, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,664 votes, led by Genesis 15:18. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Israel and Palestine
Genesis 15:18115 votes
In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
Joshua 1:2-391 votes
Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.
Judges 2:391 votes
Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
Leviticus 25:2388 votes
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Ezekiel 36:1-3876 votes
Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord:
Genesis 12:1-369 votes
Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
Zephaniah 2:4-763 votes
For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
Psalms 83:1-1854 votes
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
Zechariah 12:1-654 votes
The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
Exodus 3:846 votes
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Joshua 13:1-546 votes
Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the Lord said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.
Judges 3:437 votes
And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
Nehemiah 4:7-837 votes
But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
Leviticus 19:33-3430 votes
And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
Zechariah 13:8-930 votes
And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
Deuteronomy 2:524 votes
Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.
Nehemiah 2:2024 votes
Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.
1 Peter 1:1-2524 votes
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
Revelation 2:922 votes
I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
Genesis 36:1221 votes
And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau’s son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau’s wife.
Ezekiel 35:520 votes
Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
Matthew 2:20-2118 votes
Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child’s life.
Jeremiah 30:716 votes
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
Ezekiel 20:40-4416 votes
For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
Amos 9:1-1516 votes
I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
What does the Bible say about israel and palestine?
Readers most often cite Genesis 15:18 on the subject of israel and palestine. Across 1,664 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Joshua 1:2-3, Judges 2:3, Leviticus 25:23. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.