NOUN
- the goal towards which Christians strive
- an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism
How To Use Promised Land In A Sentence
- If they kept these laws they were going to be victorious and happy in their promised land.
- His inclusion of Africans is crucial, for saliently appurtenant to his remapping and reclamation is the recognition that neither Homewood nor Promised Land can be the sole genesis of his family.
- This must have sounded like blasphemy to Weizmann, who like most mainstream Zionists believed that the Jewish mission was a long-term ingathering of all Jews everywhere back to the Promised Land. Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
- He credits his party with delivering the city from debt and unemployment to the promised land of productivity and job creation.
- Like the early deportees these 21st-century settlers have to endure hardship and adversity before they emerge into the promised land of white sandy beaches stretching into the sunset.
- The unclad working class panorama would slam rusted doors on the Promised Land, ransacking determined belief from our official atheism. Soviet
- Studying it, I finally grasped the connection between the story of the bulrushes and Moses' death before entering the Promised Land.
- On the way there, according to the Bible, Abraham stopped off in a place call Haran and stayed there for some time before continuing on to the Promised Land. In the Valley of the Shadow
- Jacob's dying blessing focusses on the distant future, when the descendants of these twelve will occupy the promised land.
- The irony is acute: while many young locals flee the Highlands, many southerners see the area as the promised land.