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- *God tells the Israelites to go to the Promised Land: "Start ... *God (through Moses) promises the Israelites the Promised Land: "Every ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 04:26, 23 March 2024
- author of novels such as the ironic The Promised Land and The Outrage. An ironic ... this book—Ziemia obiecana ("The Promised Land") (1897)—enabled ...13 KB (2,005 words) - 23:19, 17 May 2023
- with a promise to take them to the Promised Land. On the way, they camp ... instead of immediately entering the Promised Land. Even Moses sins and ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- creation of the modern State of Israel as a land to which all Jews could return ... ==The 'Twice-Promised Land'== The debate regarding Palestine ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 05:52, 26 August 2023
- appearance of the Qá'im, the Promised One of Islam. After the ... replied that he was searching for the Promised One. Mīrzā ʿAlī Moḥammad ...17 KB (2,919 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
- their exodus from Egypt, to lead them to the promised land, and to destroy the hostile tribes in their way (Exod. 23:20; Num. 20:16). In Judges 2:1 ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 05:15, 17 July 2022
- Land pollution is the degradation of earth's land surfaces often ... * Tal, Alon. Pollution in a Promised Land: An Environmental History ...12 KB (1,940 words) - 21:14, 22 October 2022
- and 1794) that ceded large tracts of Native land to the fledgling United States ... Chief Cornplanter died and was buried in 1836 on land that had been ...15 KB (2,354 words) - 19:04, 14 January 2023
- with Noah and those who followed him. God promised “that never again shall ... they reaffirm the possession of the promised land by the Israelites. The ...23 KB (3,861 words) - 20:30, 28 May 2020
- 18) with a promise to take them to the promised land. On the way, they camp ... instead of immediately entering the promised land. Even Moses sins and ...24 KB (3,856 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- and peacemaker. He wanted to retain the land of his ancestors, while also ... racial equality and petitioning for land rights. ==Background== ...16 KB (2,627 words) - 15:25, 10 December 2023
- into peaceful trade relations, exchanged land for manufactured goods, and ... By the 1950s Shuar had lost a considerable amount of land to settlers ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 17:14, 27 October 2020
- could not have children. However, God promised Abram that he would become ... Meanwhile, although God again promised Abram that he would yet be ...14 KB (2,282 words) - 19:23, 15 September 2022
- the king's right to take possession of land and safeguarded the rights ... dealt harshly with the barons, which promised to result in further rebellion ...11 KB (1,739 words) - 23:29, 17 December 2022
- The son of a wealthy land owner, he probably lived from the income ... According to historians, Mahmud had promised Ferdowsi a dinar for every ...15 KB (2,389 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- a sawmill at the far eastern extent of his land at Coloma, California, on ... in the care of his brother. He promised to send for them as soon ...21 KB (3,394 words) - 04:21, 3 May 2024
- the wilderness and prepare to enter the Promised Land of Canaan. It is the ... and urges them to go forward to conquer the land of Canaan. The Canaanite nations ...25 KB (3,999 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- of God. Abraham's journeys through the land of Canaan mark out the territory ... Abram, "Go from your country... to the land I will show you" (Gen ...30 KB (4,873 words) - 16:27, 23 December 2022
- the arts of civilized life of those times in the land of Moab. ... legendary site where Moses glimpsed the Promised Land of Canaan before dying ...13 KB (2,054 words) - 16:16, 9 November 2022
- Prior to his coronation, Otto IV had promised to leave the Church ... , which was intended to recapture the Holy Land. The Pope directed his call ...15 KB (2,410 words) - 19:30, 5 March 2024
- of 1830, which exchanged Native American land in the East for lands west ... to the national government its western land claims (which became the states ...16 KB (2,520 words) - 04:56, 1 May 2023
- drained and transformed into agricultural land. The southern end of the valley ... the people, the Israelites entered the Promised Land by crossing the Jordan ...11 KB (1,805 words) - 06:19, 6 May 2024
- , 240. The Catholic church was the largest land-owner and exercised considerable ... in 1852) he welcomed this because it promised increased democracy. Affre ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- After the Tehran Conference in 1943, the three leaders promised to ... forcing out millions of Germans. Stalin promised free elections in Poland ...13 KB (2,093 words) - 10:05, 22 May 2023
- According to myth, Queen Dido was granted land in North Africa to build a ... territory in Northern Africa. In losing the land, the Roman Empire lost a pinnacle ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 06:36, 16 November 2022
- of squatters, who were barred from buying land in the west without already ... the United States." Each man was promised about 4,600 acres (19 square ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 08:40, 28 January 2024
- of its Women's League. Following the Land Reform in Sri Lanka in 1972 ... Western Province of Sri Lanka in 1993 in a land slide election victory. ...18 KB (2,650 words) - 01:16, 4 December 2023
- arming its fleet, while assistance was promised in the event of war by the ... the Venetians were strengthened, as the promised help started to arrive in ...20 KB (3,128 words) - 19:12, 7 May 2020
- demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the ... soap...” (3:1-2). He will carry out the promised purification of the Levite ...17 KB (2,748 words) - 20:37, 17 May 2023
- In the earliest Sumerian sources, beginning about 2400 B.C.E., the ... does not bend his knees [to cultivate the land], who eats raw meat, who has ...16 KB (2,552 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- Some sources say that while Edward had promised the throne to his cousin ... and shouted "I now take hold of the land of England!" This bears ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 09:46, 22 September 2023
- She promised to reform the land tenure system, a source of dispute ... She also promised to "encourage woman across Africa to seek high ...17 KB (2,476 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- |"Promised Land" !#41 ! !#26 |- |1965 |"Dear Dad" ... singles "Nadine" through "Promised Land". ...20 KB (3,002 words) - 21:56, 10 December 2023
- of Josiah around 628 B.C.E. His calling promised him practically unequaled ... plant... [and] to stand against the whole land—against the kings of Judah ...32 KB (5,493 words) - 08:37, 31 July 2022
- 75 percent of Cuba's best farmable land was owned by foreign individuals ... property in the nation on August 6, 1960. Land and companies owned by upper ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 19:27, 5 June 2020
- knights who expected plunder or English land. To each man, William promised ... retrieving York, while the Danish army promised to depart. ...20 KB (3,034 words) - 11:03, 9 May 2023
- who were sent out by Moses to explore the land of Canaan (Num. 13:16, 17 ... the territory of Moab, sees the "promised land" for himself, and dies. ...17 KB (2,859 words) - 19:56, 7 September 2022
- a traditional "trust" holding land for Islamic religious purposes ... in the Land of Canaan (the "Promised Land") and according ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
- and her family still lived on Laban's land. Even after this, Laban still ... where you made a vow to me. Now leave this land at once and go back to your ...14 KB (2,238 words) - 22:37, 7 December 2022
- did not want its Jews and the Jews wanted a land of their own. Palestine itself ... Iraq and Jordan. During the war, they had promised the Sharif of Mecca an Arab ...16 KB (2,421 words) - 10:58, 6 March 2024
- ::How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land? ... rule, while the territory formerly promised to Israel by God and the ...18 KB (2,780 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
- with thousands of others seeking affordable land and promises of new prosperity ... under his rule Canada bought Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory ...20 KB (2,893 words) - 22:57, 23 April 2023
- attitudes also justified ambitions for land. Mexico, in contrast, was ... The United States paid $15,000,000 for the land, half of what it had offered ...28 KB (4,268 words) - 16:30, 9 November 2022
- Panel and International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement, 1999). ... Without the promised funding from the United States and Great Britain ...9 KB (1,433 words) - 18:40, 19 August 2023
- in 1953. Although he had famously promised his subjects that he would ... Had he delivered what he promised, and shared power with others within ...13 KB (2,063 words) - 00:45, 14 July 2022
- over a plan to build a mosque on a plot of land adjacent to both locations ... woman chosen to be the mother of the promised Messiah, they omit any reference ...12 KB (2,039 words) - 05:11, 31 July 2023
- second generation—to enter the Promised Land. The book contains several ... the reports of spies sent to survey the land of Canaan, and their consequent ...28 KB (4,576 words) - 20:04, 17 May 2023
- could handle large amounts of power and promised to be easy to manufacture ... into labor for a few years. Later, Edison promised Tesla $50,000 if he could ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 00:24, 24 November 2022
- Knights, who were invited to the Chełmno Land in 1226 by Konrad I of Masovia ... knights could not travel and fight on land soaked by water from melting ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 08:22, 1 July 2022
- him to lead the Israelites into the Promised Land. In a passage echoing ... priests, but will also rule the entire land through fear for 34 years ...13 KB (2,063 words) - 05:06, 18 August 2023
- class. In 1868, the Emperor took all land from the Tokugawa and put ... The oligarchs also embarked on a series of land reforms. In particular ...14 KB (2,115 words) - 04:13, 9 November 2022
- , a gunman of some reputation who had promised to restore law and order ... on the opposite end of their illegal land deals and the intimidation ...17 KB (2,723 words) - 09:03, 18 November 2022
- tradition linking the Jewish people to the Land of Israel, the modern Zionist ... In Jewish tradition, Eretz Israel, or Zion, is a land promised to ...20 KB (2,796 words) - 18:55, 1 November 2023
- natural territorial extension of the mother-land, rather than as "overseas ... received far less in Europe than had been promised, and none at all overseas ...17 KB (2,625 words) - 06:22, 11 March 2024
- the right to give to his own subjects the land of the native Indians. ... regarding the possession of a piece of land (Marblehead), the court offered ...17 KB (2,483 words) - 02:41, 16 December 2022
- to get the Crown to address past Mohawk land grievances, and the government ... Confederated Indians'. He also promised provisions, but no pay, ...30 KB (4,676 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- Bureau agents sometimes falsely promised Blacks that the plantation ... mission societies collected funds for land, buildings, teachers' ...13 KB (1,911 words) - 10:37, 11 April 2024
- as "Badlands" and "The Promised Land" became concert ... * Wolff, Daniel. 4th of July, Asbury Park: A History of the Promised ...23 KB (3,510 words) - 04:41, 22 November 2023
- When the Israelites entered the land of Canaan, the Levites received ... and Perizzites, the people living in this land" (Gen. 34:30). Levi himself ...21 KB (3,292 words) - 22:17, 25 October 2022
- had sub-divided their original reservation land and forced them to turn to ... his vision. He spoke of a journey to the land of the dead and of promises ...15 KB (2,439 words) - 18:46, 8 December 2022
- to the land of Canaan, the "Promised Land" that God told Moses ... an attempt to fight their way into the Promised Land according to the earlier ...40 KB (6,642 words) - 20:52, 26 August 2020
- by allowing them to return to their native land, effectively ending the Babylonian ... the Jewish population returned to the Promised Land from Babylon, following ...22 KB (3,584 words) - 07:28, 12 January 2024
- his own family, but mankind itself and all land animals, from extinction during ... so the Great Flood came, and all life on land was extinguished, except for ...17 KB (2,732 words) - 18:11, 11 November 2023
- under the laws of primogeniture. William promised that if they brought their ... began immediately to lay waste to the land. It may have prompted Harold ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- man, and he donated all of the family’s land as the site for the new Wonnyeongsa ... the government, preaching that Silla is the land of Buddhism. This contributed ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
- the Social Democrats to have Kun receive promised Soviet support that it was ... #039;s government refused to redistribute land to the peasantry, thereby ...26 KB (4,004 words) - 08:50, 27 September 2023
- Adams quoted in Walter A. McDougall. 1997. Promised Land, Crusader ... *McDougall, Walter A. Promised Land, Crusader State: The American ...40 KB (6,026 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- Liberia. The settlers regarded Africa as a "Promised Land," but they did not integrate into an African society. Once in Africa, they referred ...11 KB (1,715 words) - 03:32, 24 July 2023
- * The Promised Land, Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2002, ISBN 9780385659291 ... * Berton, Pierre. 1984. The promised land: settling the West 1896 ...22 KB (3,103 words) - 05:19, 24 November 2022
- As the Israelites prepare to enter the Promised Land, Moses reminds them that ... rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you to possess ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 02:37, 24 July 2023
- appeal with his brother. However, Harold promised him assistance and support ... Danes, to prevent them from pillaging the land. The English first paid this ...11 KB (1,794 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
- God is said to have shown him the Promised Land in the Book of Deuteronomy ... king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he gave judgment ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 02:27, 1 August 2022
- I, who, in the Rastafari view, is the promised Biblical messiah. The movement ... #039;s peoples of African origin into a promised land of full emancipation ...26 KB (4,200 words) - 17:24, 16 April 2023
- try to outwit Satan, to whom he has promised his soul, by asking for ... the sense of "fruit of the unenclosed land." The word was applied ...14 KB (2,247 words) - 17:31, 16 February 2023
- learned Ephraim of Brody that the latter promised Israel his daughter Chana ... they were nearly a hundred years old, the promised son (Besht) was born. ...23 KB (3,822 words) - 05:22, 26 August 2023
- of his people in 1867. This treaty promised the Arapaho a reservation ... The Dawes Act broke up the Cheyenne-Arapaho land base. All land not ...23 KB (3,297 words) - 21:30, 11 August 2023
- An Indian reservation in the United States is an area of land managed ... Act, ended the general policy of granting land parcels to tribes as-a-whole ...36 KB (5,257 words) - 22:03, 4 February 2023
- At the beginning of his term in Constantinople, Nestorius had promised Emperor Theodosius II that he would "free (the land) of heretics ...12 KB (1,909 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- In return for these cities Prusias promised that he would continue on ... Seleucid Empire, hoping to divide up the land held by Ptolemaic Egypt under ...30 KB (4,711 words) - 00:32, 27 December 2021
- project. Making a profit for the mother-land was still the bottom line ... the regency that renounced Raghunath and promised him a pension. The Bombay ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 05:59, 28 July 2023
- Umar ibn al-Khattab visited Bethlehem and promised that the Church of the Nativity ... the Official Christian presence in the Holy Land had been Greek Orthodox, who ...17 KB (2,648 words) - 17:59, 29 September 2023
- province's 548,000-square-kilometer land base. The forests generally ... * Petryshyn, Jaroslav, and L. Dzubak. 1985. Peasants in the Promised ...41 KB (6,242 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- Often, corrupt yangban also confiscated land from the peasants by imposing ... to become a governmental officer. He promised to Chunhyang that he would ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 10:10, 22 May 2023
- Tell had been promised freedom if he shot the apple. On November 18, 1307, Tell split the fruit with a single bolt from his crossbow, without ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 20:35, 13 May 2023
- of Israel as a unified nation in the land promised to them by God. The ... :No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction ...20 KB (3,308 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- armed ranks of several thousand. He promised pardon to the leaders of ... Richard promised to lower the burden of taxation on his subjects, ...19 KB (3,042 words) - 21:42, 8 December 2022
- "The Gate"), claimed to be the promised Mahdi of Islam. ... the Persian Bayan was that of the great Promised One, the next embodiment ...32 KB (5,101 words) - 05:47, 26 August 2023
- The Pact of Zanjón promised various reforms throughout the island. The reforms would improve the financial situation of the island of Cuba. ...12 KB (1,919 words) - 05:40, 27 February 2023
- called Salome by Josephus), to whom he had promised any reward she chose in exchange for her dancing for him. |Matthew|14:6-11|NRSV; |Mark|6:19 ...19 KB (2,969 words) - 14:56, 12 February 2022
- * Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound For the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2004. ISBN ...11 KB (1,943 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- stories about "Birú"—a great land to the south rich with gold ... #039; interests for more gold and land. Some of the natives were ...25 KB (4,083 words) - 04:54, 9 April 2024
- several lords in the region of Normandy promised Henry their lands when they ... The battle was fought in the narrow strip of open land formed between ...17 KB (2,683 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- of crops that characterize the fertility of the Promised Land of Canaan, and barley has a prominent role in the Israelite sacrificial cult described in ...12 KB (1,885 words) - 08:08, 20 September 2023
- income, and legal reforms which promised “justice for all,” which ... The revolt failed. Charles V, who had promised to come to England’s aid ...31 KB (4,953 words) - 20:23, 31 October 2022
- the new president Gen. Yahya Khan promised to hold parliamentary elections ... himself, Bhutto announced reforms limiting land ownership and a government ...37 KB (5,508 words) - 06:14, 13 June 2023
- of black accomplishment and the 'promised land' for uprooted Africans ... modified feudal system was in place to farm the land. ==Foreign relations ...22 KB (3,389 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- Civil War. Liberia, which means "Land of the Free," was founded ... had been taken as slaves as a "Promised Land," but they did not ...23 KB (3,221 words) - 11:02, 7 March 2023
- It is also called Aotearoa or the "Land of the Long White Cloud" ... New Zealand's total land area, nearly 270,000 km², is about ...23 KB (3,336 words) - 18:04, 25 July 2023
- with a golden beard told him to purify the land of evil, and a middle-aged ... state ownership and distribution of land, a classless society, equality ...20 KB (3,050 words) - 13:03, 2 February 2024
- settled, and they purchased vast amounts of land in which to establish settlements ... Missouri, and the surrounding lands were promised to the church by God and ...28 KB (4,522 words) - 21:59, 10 December 2023
