Biblical Sources
- Exodus (NASB) 6:4
- I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they sojourned.
- Leviticus (NASB) 25:38
- I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
- 1-Chronicles (NASB) 16:
- 17 He also confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
- To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
- 18 Saying, 'To you I will give the land of Canaan,
- As the portion of your inheritance.'
- Psalm (NASB) 105:
- 10 Then He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
- To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
- 11 Saying, 'To you I will give the land of Canaan
- As the portion of your inheritance.'
The Almighty gave the Land to the Israelites as their Inheritance, their Land. They also had to keep the Law.
- Leviticus (NASB)18:
- 26 But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you...28 so that the land will not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has been before you.
- Leviticus (NASB) 20:
- 22 You are therefore to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them, so that the land to which I am bringing you to live will not spew you out.
Leviticus (NASB) 20: 22 You are therefore to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them, so that the Land to which I am bringing you to live will not spew you out.
Leviticus (NASB) 18:
28 so that the Land will not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has been before you.
(cf. Sifra, Kedoshim, 10).
DEUTERONOMY 26: 9 HE gave us this Land, a Land flowing with milk and honey.
DEUTERONOMY 11: 12 It is a Land that the LORD your God seeks out; the eyes of the LORD your God, are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
AMOS 9: 14 I will return the captivity of my people Israel, and they will rebuild desolate cities and settle them.
JEREMIAH 7: 4 You will yet plant vineyards in the mountains of Samaria.
NUMBERS (NKJV) 33: 55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain shall be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you dwell. 56 Moreover it shall be that I will do to you as I thought to do to them.