Mediterranean Sea: Mentioned in Scripture As "The Great Sea"
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Numbers 34:6,7
And as for the western border, you shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.
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Joshua 1:4
From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
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Joshua 9:1
And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;
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Joshua 15:12,47
And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.
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Joshua 23:4
Behold, I have divided to you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea westward.
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Ezekiel 47:10,15,20
And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand on it from Engedi even to Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
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Ezekiel 48:28
And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.
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About the Time of Christ, in Accordance with Prophecy, the Rulers ...
... For the Scripture, in the book of Daniel ... five cities of the Philistines (mentioned
frequently in ... Old Testament), lay upon the Mediterranean Sea, between Gaza ...
/.../pamphilius/church history/chapter vi about the time of.htm

General Notes by the American Editor
... The Mediterranean, near Mount Carmel, is "the sea of Phoenice ... the Arabian Gulf can
be called the sea of the ... Indeed, if the Victorinus mentioned by Jerome be the ...
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Agrippa, who was Also Called Herod, Having Persecuted the Apostles ...
... and not of a man, the Scripture relates that ... 338] C??sarea lay upon the Mediterranean
Sea, northwest of ... It is more probable that the festival mentioned was the ...
/.../pamphilius/church history/chapter x agrippa who was also.htm

The Creation of Moving Creatures.
... I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. ... in that genuine work of his before mentioned,
speaks clearly ... of which several species are found in the Mediterranean. ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/homily vii the creation of.htm

In Galilee at the Time of Our Lord
... valley, or in Lower Galilee up to the sea-coast ... In the Talmud it is mentioned by
the name of Zephath ... great mart of Ptolemais, on the shore of the Mediterranean. ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/chapter 3 in galilee at.htm

Of the Three Woe Trumpets.
... the nature of scorpions) through the Mediterranean sea, as well ... those five months
being twice mentioned, as if ... Israel in their calves, the Scripture says that ...
/.../mede/a key to the apocalypse/of the three woe trumpets.htm

The Prophet Joel.
... the Arabian desert"is first mentioned; then, the anterior sea, ie, the Dead Sea,
situated eastward ... Jerusalem; and lastly, the hinder, or Mediterranean Sea. ...
/.../hengstenberg/christology of the old testament/the prophet joel.htm

The Twelve Minor Prophets.
... of this earthquake, which is simply mentioned by Zechariah ... befell Jonah, when cast
into the sea, is more ... That there exist in the Mediterranean fish capable of ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxiii the twelve minor.htm

The Birth of England's Foreign Missions
... commission of Christ as at first." Carey had never before mentioned the subject ... the
Great South Sea as they can through the Mediterranean or any lesser sea. ...
/.../smith/the life of william carey/chapter ii the birth of.htm

The Kingdom Forming
... 3. Name the five kinds of offerings mentioned in the first ... This includes the
Mediterranean shore line, Jordan River, the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea. ...
/.../palmer/a birds-eye view of the bible/ii the kingdom forming.htm

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Has Israel's territory ever encompassed the promise in Joshua 1:4? | GotQuestions.org

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Mediterranean: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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