From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory. (Joshua 1:4) Archaeological research has made great strides in our times, and many details of the map of the ancient Holy Land are now agreed upon. The decisive geographical factor in the history of Canaan/Israel is its outermost position at the southwest
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