What is…
westward in the Bible

In Israel, “west” or “westward” is sea-ward, that is toward the Mediterranean Sea.

“I [Moses]…pleaded with Yahweh… Let me, I pray, cross over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and Lebanon.’ But Yahweh was angry with me… Yahweh said to me, ‘Enough! Speak to Me no more of this matter.

Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes to the west and north and south and east, and see it [the Promised Land] with your eyes, for you shall not cross over this Jordan.’” —Deuteronomy 3:23-27 excerpt

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• The Sea
• East sea
• East
• East wind
• Children of the East
• South
• Northward
• North country