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  Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Israel is bordered by Lebanon and Syria in the north, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, and Egypt and the Gaza Strip in the south-west, and has coastlines on the Mediterranean in the west and the Gulf of Eilat (also known as the Gulf of Aqaba) in the south.
Israel is currently also embroiled in an ongoing conflict with Palestinians in the territories controlled since the Six Day War in 1967, despite the signing of the Oslo Accords on September 13, 1993, and the ongoing efforts of Israeli, Palestinian and global peacemakers.
Israel currently plans on expanding existing large West Bank settlement blocs, and maintains the current impasse in the peace process —negotiations toward a permanent peace treaty featuring a two-state solution— cannot be restarted until the Palestinian government dismantles terrorist groups.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Israel   (4163 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Israel
Abroad, Israel's friendly relations with Juda assumed to permanent character by the marriage of Athalia the daughter of Achab and Jezabel, with Joram the son of Josaphat; and in point of fact, Israel was at peace with Juda throughout the twenty-two years of Achab's reign.
Owing chiefly to the fact that Israel's enemies had grown weaker on every side, the new king was able to eclipse the victories achieved by his father, Joas, and to maintain for a while the old ideal boundaries both east and west of the Jordan (2 Kings 14:28).
Of the two kingdoms formed upon the disruption of Solomon's empire, the Southern Kingdom, or Kingdom of Juda, was in several respects the weaker, and yet was the better fitted to withstand the assaults of foreign enemies.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/08193a.htm   (6992 words)

  
 Crosswalk.com
He introduced idolatry into the court of Israel, and his reign was distinguished by its remarkable disregard for the law of God (1 Kings 16:9-17:24).
He restored the coast of Israel from the "entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain," according to the prediction of Jonah the son of Amittai (2 Kings 14:23-25).
Israel was greatly afflicted during these times, but the Lord granted them deliverance by the hand of the king (2 Kings 14:26,27).
bible.crosswalk.com /Encyclopedias/CondensedBiblicalCyclopedia/cbe.cgi?number=T49   (2057 words)

  
 Mysteries of the Kingdom Part 1 - Israel's Rejection
The King of the kingdom -- the One destined to replace Satan as the ruler over this earth -- was present; and the sceptre could, at that time, have passed from the hands of Satan and his angels into the hands of Man, conditioned upon Israel's repentance.
Israel was sick, "from the sole of the foot even unto the head," and healing for the nation was in the offing, conditioned upon the nation's repentance.
The people of Israel had rejected the proffered kingdom, and the kingdom was about to be taken from Israel, with a view to a separate and distinct entity (the Church) being called into existence to be the recipient of that which Israel rejected (Matt.
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 THE NORTHERN KINGDOM OF ISRAEL
Rehoboam was the son of Solomon and heir to the throne of Israel.
Israel (as opposed to Judah in the south).
The story of the kings of the Northern Kingdom of Israel is one of dynasty after dynasty being assassinated for the throne.
www.angelfire.com /nt/theology/11israel.html   (4667 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Kingdom of Israel
The Kingdom of Israel is the nation formed from the descendants of Jacob, who is also known as Israel.
Following the death of Solomon, this kingdom was divided into a Northern Kingdom known as Israel and a Southern Kingdom known as Judah.
The area of Solomon's kingdom, excluding the Phoenician territories on the shore of the Mediterranean, did not much exceed 34,000 km2 (13,000 square miles).
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Kingdom_of_Israel   (768 words)

  
 A. S. Johnson's Kingdom of Israel
He introduced idolatry into the court of Israel, and his reign was distinguished by its remarkable disregard for the law of God (I.
He restored the coast of Israel from the "entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain," according to the prediction of Jonah the son of Amittai (II.
Israel was greatly afflicted during these times but the Lord granted them deliverance by the hand of the king (II.
www.mun.ca /rels/restmov/texts/asjohnson/cbc/CBC49.HTM   (1768 words)

  
 The kingdom of Israel
When Israel separates itself from G-d, to act willfully against the Word of Hashem, the result is a world of decadence; for all who stray from His Judgement.
Israel wanders through a desert of desolation and its hope is a tormenting intoxication.
The assembly of leaders, from all the elders of Israel, in representation of cities and regions in the nation, which is today called the knesset--there will be seventy of them, and they will carry the burden of government, along with the ministers, the prime minister, and the king.
www.amichai.com /kodesh/kingdom.htm   (2266 words)

  
 Israel, Kingdom of (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
War, with varying success, was carried on between the two kingdoms for about sixty years, till Jehoshaphat entered into an Alliance with the house of Ahab.
After the deportation of the ten tribes, the deserted land was colonized by various eastern tribes, whom the king of Assyria sent thither (Ezra 4:2, 10; 2 Kings 17:24-29).
In contrast with the kingdom of Judah is that of Israel.
www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/israelkingdomof.html   (493 words)

  
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On 11 March the Israel Beth Din informed the mother that her submission that there should be rabbinical proceedings in England was rejected and served her with a fourth summons to attend the israel Beth Din, this time on 18 March 1996.
He further held that the request by the father for access was the act of a man waiting for the Israel Beth Din to secure the return of the children but desperate to see them and was not an act showing that he acquiesced in their remaining in England.
045 As to the father's suggestion of access in Israel over Passover coupled with an agreement to return them to the United Kingdom, this proposal was as consistent with the father wishing to retain his contact with the children as with the decision by the father not to pursue the summary remedy for their return.
www.hiltonhouse.com /cases/Inreh_and_others_uk.txt   (5490 words)

  
 History of THE JEWS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
North of Jerusalem, in the kingdom of Israel, a surviving son of Saul struggles to maintain his inheritance against the Philistine threat.
Solomon, inheriting a stable and united kingdom of Israel, is free to indulge in the arts of peacetime.
In his northern kingdom Jeroboam allows the worship of Yahweh to become associated with a local Canaanite bull cult (the 'golden calf'), a blasphemy considered so heinous in the biblical account that all the disasters in store for the ten northern tribes seem richly deserved.
www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=399&HistoryID=aa42   (1743 words)

  
 Dispensationalist Beliefs ~ Israel and the Kingdom of God
The kingdom was covenanted by God as he entered into unconditional covenant with David and gave to Israel its national hope of a permanent earthly kingdom (2 Samuel 7).
The kingdom was predicted by the prophets as a glorious kingdom for Israel on earth when the Messianic Son of David would sit on David's throne and rule over the nations from Jerusalem.
An election of Israel is then sealed by God to proclaim throughout all the world the Gospel of the kingdom (Matt 24:14), i.e., that the Davidic kingdom, the kingdom of heaven, is about to be set up.
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 The Times of the Gentiles the Restoration of the Kingdom to Israel
The kingdom of God which all Israel was in expectation, and which Jesus himself preached, looked to the time when the yoke of the Gentiles would be taken from the people of God and dominion would be returned to the house of David.
The restoration of the kingdom to Israel (Acts 1:6), by setting up anew the throne of David over the people of God and the subjugation of their enemies, would be fulfilled by the victory of the gospel over the hearts and minds of men, encompassing every race and people, revolutionizing every human institution.
The “times of the Gentiles” was coterminous with national Israel from and after the Babylonia captivity until kingdom and reign of the Messiah; when Jerusalem was trodden under foot at the end of the Mosaic age the times of the Gentiles would be fulfilled, and the kingdom and reign of the Messiah would usher in.
www.preteristcentral.com /articles-preterist-times-of-gentiles.htm   (1640 words)

  
 Israel's Kingdom Gospel and Our Grace Gospel
After the nation Israel had been in slavery in Egypt for many years, God called Moses to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt and gave them an extensive set of laws that are referred to collectively as "the law of Moses", or simply as "the law".
Secondly, it was given to the eleven for the preaching of the gospel of the kingdom to the circumcision (Israel).
The twelve apostles led by Peter, preached the gospel of the kingdom to Israel, that Israel should believe that Jesus Christ was the Messiah, repent, and be baptized with water.
www.matthewmcgee.org /2gospels.html   (16552 words)

  
 Bible Study - Israelite Dynasties
The northern kingdom of Israel lasted just over 200 years before they were conquered and taken away into exile by the Assyrians.
The southern kingdom of Judah lasted slightly over 300 years before they were conquered and taken into exile by the Babylonians under King Nebuchadnezzar.
Unlike the northern kingdom however, a remnant of the southern kingdom was allowed to return and resettle Jerusalem in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah after the Babylonians were themselves conquered by the Persians under Cyrus the Great.
www.keyway.ca /htm2001/20010724.htm   (367 words)

  
 Israel, Kingdom of - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
But not only is the kingdom of Judah of paramount importance in respect of both religion and literature, but its government also was in the hands of a single dynasty, whereas that of the Northern Kingdom changed hands no less than 8 times, during the two and a half centuries of its existence.
But it was not until the long reign of Jeroboam II, son of Jehoash, that the frontiers of Israel, were, for the first time since the beginning of the kingdom, restored to their ideal limits.
The kingdom of Israel was reduced to the dimensions of the later province of Samaria.
www.searchgodsword.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T4704   (2512 words)

  
 Dispensationalist Beliefs - Israel and the Kingdom of God
The kingdom was covenanted by God as he entered into unconditional covenant with David and gave to Israel its national hope of a permanent earthly kingdom (2 Sam 7).
The kingdom, because it was rejected and postponed, entered a mystery form (Matt 13) for the present age This mystery form of the kingdom has to do with the Church age when the kingdom of heaven is embodied in Christendom.
The kingdom of heaven is Messianic, mediatorial, and Davidic (Scofield's footnote, p.1003); it also signifies the Messianic earth rule of Jesus Christ, the Son of David (footnote p.996).
www.graceonlinelibrary.org /etc/printer-friendly.asp?ID=178   (2983 words)

  
 Israel (ancient kingdom)
Ancient kingdom of northern Palestine, formed after the death of Solomon by Jewish peoples seceding from the rule of his son Rehoboam and electing Jeroboam as their leader.
Jews believe that the land of Israel was given to them forever by God when he brought them out of Egypt under Moses' guidance.
The name is therefore sometimes used to refer to the Jews themselves, as in ‘the people of Israel’ or, in the context of biblical times, ‘Israelites’.
www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0013810.html   (158 words)

  
 Restoration of Kingdom to Israel Jews, Kingdom of God YAHVEH YAHWEH YHVH YHWH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Divine Purpose of the perpetuation of Israel throughout thousands of years, and the eventual establishment of a Holy universal Kingdom with Headquarters in Jerusalem, is the main theme of Prophetic Script.
It also reveals the main reason why the Almighty has endured the nation of Israel for all that they have done in failing Him so often, and why He is busy resurrecting the actual Land of Eretz Israel and the City of Jerusalem in the sight of all nations.
Biblical Prophecy destined this Battle to be the culminating event of this dispensation, prior to the establishment of the Kingdom of Peace on earth, by the God of Israel.
www.revelations.org.za /Kingdom.htm   (4255 words)

  
 The Kings of Israel
The three original kings of Israel were Saul, David and Solomon.
After the death of Solomon, the ten northern tribes revolted and established the kingdom of Israel in the north.
The remaining tribes remained loyal to the son of Solomon and formed the Kingdom of Judah in the south.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/Kings.html   (49 words)

  
 Does Acts 1:6-7 Teach a Restoration of the Nation Israel?
Therefore it is highly unlikely they would have thought He meant to alter the meaning of the kingdom by excluding its national, political character.
First, some have claimed that the disciples were simply misguided in their understanding of the kingdom or that they had not grasped the true meaning of Jesus’ kingdom message.
The fact that these disciples had immediately experienced forty days of kingdom instruction from the risen Jesus (see Acts 1:3) makes it unlikely they could be so wrong about the nature of the kingdom and national Israel’s relationship to it.
www.theologicalstudies.org /acts1.html   (1747 words)

  
 MIA | Marketplace: Restoring Israel's Kingdom
It shows us we can make a difference by capturing the vision that was so important to Yeshua's disciples--the restoration of the Kingdom to Israel.
Reviews the history and current situation in Israel, then points the way to final victory for the united people of Israel.
With olive groves serving as a backdrop, these fathers of our faith asked the King of Israel, "Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?" (Acts 1:6).
www.mim.net /Store/Books/RestoringIsraelsKingdom.asp   (418 words)

  
 Chronology from the Division of the Kingdom of Israel to the Fall of Babylon
Chronology from the Division of the Kingdom of Israel to the Fall of Babylon
Chart number one begins with the reigns of Rehoboam and Jeroboam at the division of the kingdom after the death of Solomon.
In addition to the reigns of the kings of Israel and Judah, I have provided the best possible dates for the reigns of the kings of the surrounding nations without undermining or contradicting what is written in the sacred text.
members.aol.com /gparrishjr/998-538.html   (389 words)

  
 israel map palestinian territories map and information page
This historic, volatile spot is significant for Christians, Muslims and Jews alike, as Jerusalem is recognized as a holy city by all three religious faiths.
Relative Location Israel is in both the northern and eastern hemispheres.
Climate Summers in Israel are hot and dry, and especially hot in the eastern and southern desert areas.
www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/asia/il.htm   (610 words)

  
 Search Results for Israel - Encyclopædia Britannica
A republic of southwestern Asia, Israel is situated on the Mediterranean Sea.
either of two political units in the Old Testament: the united kingdom of Israel under the kings Saul, David, and Solomon that lasted from about 1020 to 922 BC; or the northern kingdom of Israel,...
Peacemaking between Israel and the Palestinians moved tantalizingly close to a final agreement in 2000 but then degenerated into violent clashes when the two sides failed to agree on sovereignty over...
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