Joshua 21:43
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43 Thus the Lord gave to Israel all the land that he swore to their ancestors that he would give them, and having taken possession of it, they settled there.(A)
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Genesis 13:15
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15 for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever.(A)
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Psalm 44:3
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3 for not by their own sword did they win the land,
nor did their own arm give them victory,
but your right hand, and your arm,
and the light of your countenance,
for you delighted in them.(A)
Genesis 28:4
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4 May he give to you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, so that you may take possession of the land where you now live as an alien, land that God gave to Abraham.”(A)
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Psalm 106:42-45
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42 Their enemies oppressed them,
and they were brought into subjection under their power.
43 Many times he delivered them,
but they were rebellious in their purposes
and were brought low through their iniquity.(A)
44 Nevertheless, he regarded their distress
when he heard their cry.(B)
45 For their sake he remembered his covenant
and showed compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love.(C)
Exodus 23:27-31
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27 I will send my terror in front of you and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 28 And I will send swarms of hornets[a] in front of you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.(A) 29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals multiply against you.(B) 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land. 31 I will set your borders from the Red Sea[b] to the sea of the Philistines and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will hand over to you the inhabitants of the land, and you shall drive them out before you.(C)
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Deuteronomy 11:31
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31 “When you cross the Jordan to go in to occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving you and when you occupy it and live in it,(A)
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Exodus 3:8
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8 and I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.(A)
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Genesis 26:3-4
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3 Reside in this land as an alien, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will fulfill the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.(A) 4 I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth shall gain blessing for themselves through your offspring,(B)
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Genesis 15:13-21
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13 Then the Lord[a] said to Abram, “Know this for certain, that your offspring shall be aliens in a land that is not theirs and shall be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years,(A) 14 but I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.(B) 15 As for yourself, you shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.(C) 16 And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”(D)
17 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.(E) 18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates,(F) 19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
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Genesis 28:13-14
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13 And the Lord stood beside him[a] and said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring,(A) 14 and your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and all the families of the earth shall be blessed[b] in you and in your offspring.(B)
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Deuteronomy 34:4
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4 The Lord said to him, “This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there.”(A)
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Deuteronomy 17:14
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Limitations of Royal Authority
14 “When you have come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, ‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’(A)
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Genesis 12:7
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7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.(A)
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