Joshua 21:43

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The LORD gave the Israelites the land he had promised their ancestors, and they captured it and settled in it.

Cross References

Genesis 12:7

but the LORD appeared to Abram and promised, “I will give this land to your family for ever.” Abram then built an altar there for the LORD.

Genesis 13:15

I will give you and your family all the land you can see. It will be theirs for ever!

Genesis 28:4

May he bless you with the land he gave Abraham, so that you will take over this land where we now live as foreigners.

2 Chronicles 20:8

Our ancestors lived in this land and built a temple to honour you.

Nehemiah 9:24

Then their descendants conquered the land. You helped them defeat the kings and nations and treat their enemies however they wished.

Nehemiah 9:8

Because he was faithful, you made an agreement to give his descendants the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, and of the Jebusites and Girgashites. Now you have kept your promise, just as you always do.

Psalm 105:8

He will never forget his agreement or his promises, not in thousands of years.

Psalm 44:3

Their strength and weapons were not what won the land and gave them victory! You loved them and fought with your powerful arm and your shining glory.

Psalm 78:55

He made nations run from the tribes of Israel, and he let the tribes take over their land.

Exodus 3:8

and I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians. I will bring my people out of Egypt into a country where there is good land, rich with milk and honey. I will give them the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.

Jeremiah 32:23

But when our ancestors took over the land, they did not obey you. And now you have punished Israel with disaster.

Numbers 33:53

Then settle in the land—I have given it to you as your own.

Numbers 34:2

to tell the people of Israel that their land in Canaan would have the following borders:

Deuteronomy 11:31

Soon you will cross the River Jordan to conquer the land that the LORD your God is giving you. And when you have settled there,

Deuteronomy 12:29

Israel, as you go into the land and attack the nations that are there, the LORD will get rid of them, and you can have their land.

Deuteronomy 17:14

People of Israel, after you capture the land the LORD your God is giving you, and after you settle on it, you will say, “We want a king, just like the nations around us.”

Deuteronomy 34:4

The LORD said, “Moses, this is the land I was talking about when I solemnly promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that I would give land to their descendants. I have let you see it, but you will not cross the Jordan and go in.”

Joshua 1:6

Long ago I promised the ancestors of Israel that I would give this land to their descendants. So be strong and brave! Be careful to do everything my servant Moses taught you. Never stop reading The Book of the Law he gave you. Day and night you must think about what it says. If you obey it completely, you and Israel will be able to take this land.

Judges 11:24

If Chemosh your god takes over a country and gives it to you, don't you have a right to it? And if the LORD takes over a country and gives it to us, the land is ours!

1 Samuel 12:8

After Jacob went to Egypt, your ancestors cried out to the LORD for help, and he sent Moses and Aaron. They led your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this land.