Numbers 33:53
You are to take over the country and settle there, because I have given you the land and it belongs to you.
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Deuteronomy 3:18This was when I gave you these instructions: “The Lord your God has given you this country as yours to own. All your warriors are to cross over, ready for battle, leading your fellow Israelites.
Deuteronomy 32:8The Most High gave the nations their lands when he divided the human race; he fixed their borders depending on their gods.
Joshua 21:43And so the Lord gave to the Israelites all the land he had promised their ancestors. They took possession of it and settled there.
Psalms 24:1The earth is the Lord's, and everything that is in it belongs to him. The world is his, and everyone who lives there.
Jeremiah 27:5It was by my strength and creative power that I made the earth and the human beings and animals that live there, and I give it to those who are right in my sight.
Daniel 4:25You will be driven away from human society and you will live with the wild animals. You will eat grass like the cattle, and you will be soaked with the dew of heaven. You will be like this for seven times until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over human kingdoms, and that he gives them to those he chooses.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 33:51-56
The Canaanites Doomed. ( b. c. 1452.) 50 And the Lord spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, 51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan; 52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: 53 And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given… Read the whole commentary →