God's Land Grant to Israel by Gino Ratti
Summary and Key Verses
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Genesis 12.
Go forth to the land which I will show you
Key Verse(s):
Genesis 12:1 Now the
Lord said
to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
Key Verse(s):
Genesis 12:7 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.
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Genesis 13.
All the land which you see I will give to you and your descendants forever
Key Verse(s):
Genesis 13:14 The
Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
15 for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever.
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Genesis 15.
Abram promised descendants
Key Verse(s):
Genesis 15:18 On that day the
Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give
this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,
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Genesis 17.
Covenant between God and Abraham
Key Verse(s):
Genesis 17:8 And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”
Key Verse(s):
Genesis 17:19 God said, “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac.
I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
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Genesis 22.
Abraham and Isaac on Mount Moriah
Key Verse(s):
Genesis 22:17 I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his
enemies,
18 and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.”
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Genesis 23.
Abraham buys a resting place for Sarah
Key Verse(s):
Genesis 23:16 Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.
17 So the field of Ephron in Machpelah, which was to the east of Mamre, the field with the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, throughout its whole area, was made over
18 to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the Hittites, before all who went in at the gate of his city.
19 After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
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Genesis 25.
Abraham dies and is buried in the cave of Machpelah
Key Verse(s):
Genesis 25:1 Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.
2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
3 Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.
4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
5 Abraham gave all he had to Isaac.
6 But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.
7 These are the days of the years of Abraham's life, 175 years.
8 Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
9 Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre,
10 the field that Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried, with Sarah his wife.
11 After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac settled at Beer-lahai-roi.
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Genesis 26.
The Lord appears to Isaac
Key Verse(s):
Genesis 26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.
4 I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
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Genesis 28.
The Lord appears to Jacob
Key Verse(s):
Genesis 28:15 Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
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Genesis 35.
God appears to Jacob once more
Key Verse(s):
Genesis 35:11 And God said to him, “I am God Almighty:
be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
12 The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.”
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Exodus 3.
The Lord appears to Moses
Key Verse(s):
Exodus 3:7 Then the
Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings,
8 and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Key Verse(s):
Exodus 3:17 and I promise that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.”’
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Exodus 6.
The Lord appears again to Moses
Key Verse(s):
Exodus 6:4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners.
Key Verse(s):
Exodus 6:8 I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. I am the
Lord.’”
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Exodus 23.
Boundaries of the land
Key Verse(s):
Exodus 23:31 And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
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Numbers 13.
Spying out the land of Canaan
Key Verse(s):
Numbers 13:1 The
Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them.”
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Numbers 14.
Only Caleb and Joshua believe the Lord
Key Verse(s):
Numbers 14:30 not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
31 But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected.
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Numbers 23.
Balaam and Balak
Key Verse(s):
Numbers 23:19 God is not man, that he should lie,
or a son of man, that he should change his mind.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Key Verse(s):
Numbers 23:24 Behold, a people! As a lioness it rises up
and as a lion it lifts itself;
it does not lie down until it has devoured the prey
and drunk the blood of the slain.”
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Numbers 24.
Don't mess with Israel
Key Verse(s):
Numbers 24:8 God brings him out of Egypt
and is for him like the horns of the wild ox;
he shall eat up the nations, his adversaries,
and shall break their bones in pieces
and pierce them through with his arrows.
9 He crouched, he lay down like a lion
and like a lioness; who will rouse him up?
Blessed are those who bless you,
and cursed are those who curse you.”
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Numbers 34.
Metes and Bounds description on Israel's boundaries
Key Verse(s):
Numbers 34:1 The
Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Command the people of Israel, and say to them, When you enter the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan as defined by its borders),
3 your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin alongside Edom, and your southern border shall run from the end of the Salt Sea on the east.
4 And your border shall turn south of the ascent of Akrabbim, and cross to Zin, and its limit shall be south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon.
5 And the border shall turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and its limit shall be at the sea.
6 “For the western border, you shall have the Great Sea and its
coast. This shall be your western border.
7 “This shall be your northern border: from the Great Sea you shall draw a line to Mount Hor.
8 From Mount Hor you shall draw a line to Lebo-hamath, and the limit of the border shall be at Zedad.
9 Then the border shall extend to Ziphron, and its limit shall be at Hazar-enan. This shall be your northern border.
10 “You shall draw a line for your eastern border from Hazar-enan to Shepham.
11 And the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain. And the border shall go down and reach to the shoulder of the Sea of Chinnereth on the east.
12 And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its limit shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land as defined by its borders all around.”
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Deuteronomy 1.
Moses speaks to all the children of Israel
Key Verse(s):
Deuteronomy 1:7 Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negeb and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
8 See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the
Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.’
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Deuteronomy 11.
Extent of the territory
Key Verse(s):
Deuteronomy 11:24 Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be from the wilderness to
the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea.
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Joshua 1.
The Lord speaks to Joshua
Key Verse(s):
Joshua 1:3 Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.
Key Verse(s):
Joshua 1:6 Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.
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Leviticus 25.
The land is Mine!
Key Verse(s):
Leviticus 25:23 “The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.
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Joel 3.
My land!
Key Verse(s):
Joel 3:2 I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,
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Ezekiel 36.
My land!
Key Verse(s):
Ezekiel 36:5 therefore thus says the Lord
God: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.
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Jeremiah 12.
Israel's inheritance
Key Verse(s):
Jeremiah 12:14 Thus says the
Lord concerning all my evil neighbors who touch the heritage that I have given my people Israel to inherit: “Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
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2 Samuel 24.
Who owns the Temple Mount
Key Verse(s):
2 Samuel 24:24 But the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the
Lord my God that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels
of silver.
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1 Chronicles 21.
Temple mount
Key Verse(s):
1 Chronicles 21:24 But King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will buy them for the full price. I will not take for the
Lord what is yours, nor offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”
25 So David paid Ornan 600 shekels
of gold by weight for the site.