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The twelve tribes of Israel are referred to in the New Testament. In the gospels of Matthew and Luke , Jesus anticipates that in the Kingdom of God his disciples will "sit on [twelve] thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel". The Epistle of James addresses his audience as "the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad".
Map of the twelve tribes of Israel before the move of Dan to the north, based on the Book of Joshua. The Israelites [a] were a Hebrew-speaking ethnoreligious group [3] [4] consisting of tribes that inhabited much of Canaan during the Iron Age. [5] [6] [7]
Militarism is featured in Naphtali's history. In the ancient Song of Deborah, Naphtali is commended, along with Zebulun, for risking their lives in the fight against Sisera; [18] in the prose account of the event, [19] which Arthur Peake regards as a much later narrative based on the poem, [17] [20] there is the addition that Barak, the leader of the anti-Sisera forces, hails from the tribe of ...
The Tribe of Joseph is one of the Tribes of Israel in biblical tradition.Since the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh (often called the "two half-tribes of Joseph") together traditionally constituted the "tribe of Joseph", it was often not listed as one of the tribes, in favour of Ephraim and Manasseh being listed in its place; consequently it was often termed the House of Joseph, to avoid the use ...
It is important to note that 12 is the square root of 144. The number 12 was very important to early Jews and Christians, and represented the 12 tribes of Israel and 12 Apostles of Jesus Christ. The number symbolizes completeness in Revelation. [20] The four sides of the New City represent the four cardinal directions (North, South, East, and ...
Descendants of the 12 sons of Jacob, including Joseph; Ten Lost Tribes; Twelve Tribes of Israel. In this context Israel refers to the prophet Yaqoub who was also known as Jacob and Israel. The twelve tribes are tribes that descended from him.
From Dan to Beersheba is a biblical phrase used nine times [1] in the Hebrew Bible to refer to the settled areas of the Tribes of Israel between Dan in the North and Beersheba in the South. The term contributed to the position that was used by British politicians during negotiation of the British Mandate for Palestine following World War I.
The term "Land of Israel" is a direct translation of the Hebrew phrase ארץ ישראל (Eretz Yisrael), which occasionally occurs in the Bible, [12] and is first mentioned in the Tanakh in 1 Samuel 13:19, following the Exodus, when the Israelite tribes were already in the Land of Canaan. [13]