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ancestors of the israelites abraham was born in twenty one sixty six before century during the early bronze age, he lived in the city of ur in mesopotamia, one day god spoke to abraham and made a promise if abraham would lead his homeland and travel to the land of canaan that is the land now israel god would make him the father of a great nation trusting in god's promise abraham who was seventy five years old already took his wife sarah and his nephew lot and set out on a long journey traveling over one thousand miles from you are to canaan when abraham arrived in canaan, he found the land was already inhabited by other tribes including the canaanites hittites amorites, parasites, hivites and jebusites these tribes were descendants of noah's grants and kanan who had settled in the land generations earlier yes, noah is the noah who built noah's arkansas, but god again appeared to abraham and promised that he would give the land to abraham's descendants though abraham and sarah were already very old and had no children god promised they would have a son together amazingly when abraham was one hundred years old and sarah was ninety she gave birth to a son named isaac fulfilling god's promise isaac grew up and later had two sons named esau and jacob jacob who god renamed israel went on to have twelve sons who became the ancestors of the twelve tribes of israel for mabraham to isaac to jacob and his twelve sons god's promise to make abraham the father of a great nation was fulfilled the faith and obedience of abraham launched the establishment of the israelites as god's chosen people though abraham never saw the full fruits of god's promise in his lifetime his journey of faith led to the descendants god said he would have founding the nation of israel。
