Abraham and Sarah lived in Ur of the Chaldeans before moving to Haran and eventually settling in Canaan.
The Israelites lived in ancient Canaan, which is now modern-day Israel and Palestine. They settled in various regions within Canaan, such as the hill country of Samaria, the coastal plain, and the Jordan Valley.
Miriam in the Old Testament lived in Egypt with her family, as part of the Israelites, before they were led out of slavery by Moses.
Before going to Canaan Abraham lived in Haran.
Abraham was supposed to have brought the first Hebrews to Canaan around 1900 BC. The Israelites escaped from Egypt around 1200 BC. David was the first real king of the Israelites around 1000 BC.
Before
The Patriarchs and their family were in Israel (Canaan) for 220 years. After that they sojourned in Egypt for a couple of centuries.The era from Joshua until the First Destruction (including the Judges and Kings) was 850 years, during which the Israelites and the people of Judah remained in Israel. The Ten Israelite Tribes were exiled one century before the end of this era.See:More about this
According to The Bible, the Israelites came to live in Canaan because God promised them this land. They conquered the Canaanites, city by city, with bloody violence.According to modern scholars, the early Israelites were really Canaanites themselves, who, for whatever reason, migrated peacefully to the previously sparsely occupied Canaanite hinterland. After a period of centuries, their language and culture diverged from those of their West Semitic neighbours, and the people began to believe that they had always been a separate nation. Scholars now say that there never was a military invasion of the land of the Canaanites.
The Patriarchs and their family were in Israel (Canaan) for 220 years. After that they sojourned in Egypt for a couple of centuries.The era from Joshua until the First Destruction (including the Judges and Kings) was 850 years, during which the Israelites and the people of Judah remained in Israel. The Ten Israelite Tribes were exiled one century before the end of this era.See:More about this
because god told abraham to go to egypt Answer: The descendants of Abraham was Jacob and his 12 son's and their wives etc. Seventy people in all. There was famine in the land of Canaan and by this time Joseph had made himself known to all his brothers and sent a message to Jacob his father to bring all the family to Egypt to live as there was plenty of food for humans and animals.
On the biblical account, the Israelites conquered Canaan because they needed land and because God had promised it to them. However, it is reported that over 80 per cent of scholars say that there never was a military conquest of Canaan as described in the Bible. The Israelites were West Semitic people themselves, in effect Canaanites, and had migrated into the Palestinian hinterland towards the end of the thirteenth century BCE.
The Israelites were commanded to take Canaan (Israel) from the Canaanites (Deuteronomy ch.7), but they did so incompletely, allowing Canaanites to remain in various regions (Judges ch.1-2).