9. Illustrate the accuracy of the Bible’s geographic references.

⁹ (2) Geographic and Geologic Accuracy. Many writers have commented on the remarkable accuracy of the Bible description of the Promised Land and neighboring territories. As an example, an Oriental traveler, Dr. A. P. Stanley, said concerning the Israelites’ wilderness trek: “Even if their precise route were unknown, yet the peculiar features of the country have so much in common that the history would still receive many remarkable illustrations. . . . The occasional springs, and wells, and brooks, are in accordance with the notices of the ‘waters’ of Marah; the ‘springs’ of . . . Elim; the ‘brook’ of Horeb; the ‘well’ of Jethro’s daughters, with its ‘trough’ or tanks, in Midian. The vegetation is still that which we should infer from the Mosaic history.”d In the account of Egypt, the accuracy is seen not only in the general description of the territory​—its rich grain lands, its Nile River edged with reeds (Gen. 41:47-49; Ex. 2:3), its waters derived from ‘rivers, canals, reedy pools, and impounded waters’ (Ex. 7:19), its ‘flax, barley, wheat, and spelt’ (Ex. 9:31, 32)​—but also in the names and sites of towns.

11. How does Professor Wilson testify concerning Bible accuracy?

¹¹ As to details such as chronological and geographic statements in the Bible, Professor R. D. Wilson writes in A Scientific Investigation of the Old Testament, pages 213-14: “The chronological and geographical statements are more accurate and reliable than those afforded by any other ancient documents; and the biographical and other historical narratives harmonize marvelously with the evidence afforded by extra-biblical documents.”