Switch between modern political geography and three distinct biblical descriptions.
Modern borders and disputed lines are rendered by the OpenStreetMap basemap. Boundaries involving the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, and Golan Heights remain politically and legally disputed; zoom in for the basemap’s labels.
Numbers 34 describes the land allotted west of the Jordan with named boundary points. Genesis 15 uses the broad phrase “from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates,” whose exact geographic interpretation is debated. Joshua 1 describes a broad horizon extending from wilderness/Lebanon toward the Euphrates and Mediterranean.
Click any overlay for its passage and interpretive caution.
The State of Israel’s internationally recognized sovereign territory, the 1949 armistice/Green Line, territories occupied since 1967, and lines of control are separate concepts. A responsible map must label them separately.
Believers differ over whether land promises were unconditional, conditional, historically fulfilled, eschatological, typological, or transformed in the New Testament.
Ancient place names are not always securely identified. A polygon that looks precise can falsely imply certainty the text itself does not provide.
Genesis 15:18–21: covenant language from the “river of Egypt” to the Euphrates, followed by peoples inhabiting the land.
Numbers 34:1–12: the most boundary-like description, identifying southern, western, northern, and eastern limits for Canaan.
Joshua 1:3–4: a broad territorial horizon associated with Israel’s mission under Joshua.