The first mention of Israel is in the Victory Stela of Merneptah, the Egyptian Pharaoh, erected ca. 1210 BCE.

The princes are prostrate saying "Shalom!"
Not one of the Nine Bows lifts his head
Tjehenu is vanquished, Khatti at peace,
Canaan is captive with all woe.
Ashkelon is conquered, Gezer seized,
Yanoam made nonexistent;
Israel is wasted, bare of seed,
Khor is become a widow for Egypt.
All who roamed have been subdued.
By the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Banere-meramun,
Son of Re, Merenptah, Content with Maat,
Given life like Re every day.

Israel is mentioned with other countries lying to the northeast of Egypt. The determinative is that for people, so it was not a country at the time.

1885 (free-minds numbering)

So he followed the means. Until he reached the setting of the sun, and he found it setting at a boiling lake, and he found near it a people. We said "O Two Eras, either you are to punish, or you are to do them good."

How is this?

Salaam,
I agree with Turth's post and to add to it

The issue is in not carefully reading to understand the meaning not with the translation or if you like every other translation that has been posted here, or for that matter the Arabic.

If you carefully read, the verse says, ...he found it setting at a boiling lake...
The Quran is faithfully and truthfully reporting what this person found, how it looked to him. It does not say that God says that sun sets in water etc. This is what it looked to the person. In fact considering this a long time ago, he might have very well thought that sun sets in water, God knows. Do you see the difference? Each word of the Quran is chosen with absolute precision.

Peace
Now I'm confused. I thought the Qur'an was the word of Allah. Why should Allah put in his book the report of a man, who was not even a prophet? Why did not Allah say explicitly that the earth revolves around the sun, which we know to be the truth? After all, the Qur'an is Allah's word and Allah's word is the truth.

Wassalaam

http//dictionary.ajeeb.com translates as "cosmos , kingdom , macrocosm , world , universe".

Wassalaam

In Arabic, the singular "AAlam" is frequently used to mean "world" or "universe". Its Hebrew cognate is "Aolam" (long "o", corresponding to Arabic long "a"). Jews frequently refer to God as "melekh ha-Aolam" ("King of the Universe"). Thus, "rabbi-l-Aalameen", "lord of the worlds", is correct and similar in meaning to the Hebrew phrase.