20 Bible Verses about Taking Possession

And they took strong cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards and olive-yards, and fruit trees in abundance. And they ate and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in Your great goodness.

then Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive a portion from there in the midst of the people.

and gave them the lands of the nations; and they inherited the labor of the people,

Your people also will all be righteous; they will inherit the land forever, the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.

Woe to those who join house to house, laying field to field, until the end of space, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

A plot by her prophets is in her midst, like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they multiplied her many widows in her midst.

So says the Lord Jehovah: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! Even the old high places have become a possession to us.

So the Lord Jehovah says this: Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Idumea, who have given My land to themselves for a possession with all joy of heart, with scorning of soul, to make it open land for a prey.

Therefore prophesy and say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Because of the wasting and crushing of you from all around, that you might be a possession to the rest of the nations, and you were lifted up on the tip of the tongue, and the talking of the people;

so that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the nations on whom My name is called, says Jehovah who is doing this.

Yet I will bring an heir to you, O dweller of Mareshah. The glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.

But those vinedressers said among themselves, This is the heir! Come, let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours.

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I also was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

My brothers, I do not count myself to have taken possession, but one thing I do, forgetting the things behind and reaching forward to the things before,

So says Jehovah to the sons of Ammon: Has Israel no sons? Or has he no heir? Why does their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?

The enemy has spread out his hand upon all her desirable things; for she has seen the nations enter her holy place, whom You commanded that they should not enter into Your congregation.

Shall not their cattle and their substance and every animal of theirs be ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will live with us.

who said, Let us take possession for ourselves of the houses of God.

And the king said to Ziba, Behold, All that belonged to Mephibosheth is yours. And Ziba said, I humbly beg you that I may find grace in your sight, my lord, O king.