14 occurrences

'Possess the Land' in the Bible

May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident."

And when he sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you, "Go up and possess the land I have given you," you rebelled against the Lord your God and would neither believe nor obey him.

Then he said to me, "Get up, set out leading the people so they may go and possess the land I promised to give to their ancestors."

Now pay attention to all the commandments I am giving you today, so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed,

For you are about to cross the Jordan to possess the land the Lord your God is giving you, and you will possess and inhabit it.

You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

Wicked men will be wiped out, but those who rely on the Lord are the ones who will possess the land.

Surely those favored by the Lord will possess the land, but those rejected by him will be wiped out.

The godly will possess the land and will dwell in it permanently.

All of your people will be godly; they will possess the land permanently. I will plant them like a shoot; they will be the product of my labor, through whom I reveal my splendor.

Therefore say to them, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, pray to your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess the land?

You rely on your swords and commit abominable deeds; each of you defiles his neighbor's wife. Will you possess the land?'

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