What is the promised land for the Jews?

Answer 1

Canaan. It used to be called eretz canaan - the land of the Canaanites. When they entered the promised land, it became the Jews' land, and is called Eretz Yisrael - the land of Israel.

Answer 2

Canaan. It used to be called eretz canaan - the land of the Canaanites. When they entered the promised land, it became the Jews' land, and is called Eretz Yisrael - the land of Israel.

Answer 3

Israel is the Promised Land of the Jews and their Israelite ancestors, since it was promised to them by God.

• Genesis 12:7 And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said: 'Unto your seed I will give this land.'
  
• Genesis 13:14-17 And the Lord said unto Abram... 'Lift up your eyes, and look...northward and southward and eastward and westward. All the land which you see, to you I will give it, and to your seed forever...Arise, walk through the land..for unto you I will give it.'
  
• Genesis 15:7 and 18 And He said unto him: 'I am the Lord, who brought you out of Ur,...to give you this land to inherit it'....On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: 'Unto your seed I have given this land'...
  
• Genesis 17:8,18,19 And I will give unto you (Abraham), and to your seed after you...all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. ...And Abraham said unto God: 'would that Ishmael might live in Your presence!' And God said: 'No; Sarah shall bear you a son; and you shall name him Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.'
  
• Genesis 21:2,3,12 And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son...And Abraham...named his son Isaac....And God said unto Abraham...'through Isaac shall it be called your seed.'
  
• Genesis 26:1-3 And Isaac went unto Abimelech...And the Lord appeared to him, and said...'Sojourn in this land...unto your seed I will give all these lands.'
  
• In Genesis ch.25: Isaac has two sons, Jacob and Esau. In Genesis 28:13,14: And, behold, the Lord stood beside him (Jacob), and said: 'I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your (grand)father, and the God of Isaac. The land on which you are laying, to you I will give it, and to your seed...and you shall spread to the west, east, north, and south.'
• Genesis 35:9-12 And God appeared unto Jacob...and He called his name Israel...And God said unto him...'the land which I gave unto Abraham and Isaac, to you I will give it, and to your seed.'
  
• Genesis 50:24 And Joseph said unto his brothers (in Egypt): 'I am dying; but God will surely remember you, and bring you...unto the land which He swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.'
  
• Exodus 3:7,8 And the Lord said (to Moses): 'I have seen the affliction of My people in Egypt, and ... I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land...unto the place of the Canaanites'...
  
• Exodus 6:6-8 Say unto the children of Israel: 'I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians...And I will bring you in to the land, concerning which I lifted up My hand to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an inheritance.'
  
• Numbers 33:51-54 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say....'unto you I have given the land to possess it; and you shall inherit the land'...
  
• Deuteronomy 1:6-8 The Lord our God spoke unto us in Horeb (Sinai), saying....'Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the Lord swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.'
  

See also:Facts about Israel (and the links at the end of the Answer)

The conflict over Israel (and the links there too)

What a Muslim scholar says