Joshua 21:43

New American Bible - revised edition

And so the Lord gave Israel the entire land he had sworn to their ancestors he would give them. Once they had taken possession of it, and dwelt in it,

Cross References

Genesis 12:7

The Lord appeared to Abram and said: To your descendants I will give this land. So Abram built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.

Genesis 13:15

all the land that you see I will give to you and your descendants forever.

Genesis 28:4

May God extend to you and your descendants the blessing of Abraham, so that you may gain possession of the land where you are residing, which he assigned to Abraham.”

2 Chronicles 20:8

They have dwelt in it and they built in it a sanctuary for your name. They have said:

Nehemiah 9:24

The children went in to possess the land; you humbled before them the Canaanite inhabitants and gave them into their power, Their kings and the peoples of the land, to do with them as they wished.

Nehemiah 9:8

You found his heart faithful in your sight, you made the covenant with him To give the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites to him and his descendants. You fulfilled your promises, for you are just.

Psalm 105:8

He remembers forever his covenant, the word he commanded for a thousand generations,

Psalm 44:3

You rooted out nations to plant them, crushed peoples and expelled them.

Psalm 78:55

He drove out the nations before them, allotted them as their inherited portion, and settled in their tents the tribes of Israel.

Exodus 3:8

Therefore I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them up from that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Hivites and the Jebusites.

Jeremiah 32:23

They went in and took possession of it, but they did not listen to your voice. They did not live by your law; they did not do anything you commanded them to do. Then you made all this evil fall upon them.

Numbers 33:53

You will take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.

Numbers 34:2

Give the Israelites this order: When you enter the land of Canaan, this is the territory that shall fall to you as your heritage—the land of Canaan with its boundaries:

Deuteronomy 11:31

Now you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you. When, therefore, you take possession of it and settle there,

Deuteronomy 12:29

When the Lord, your God, cuts down from before you the nations you are going in to dispossess, and you have dispossessed them and are settled in their land,

Deuteronomy 17:14

When you have come into the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you, and have taken possession of it and settled in it, should you then decide, “I will set a king over me, like all the surrounding nations,”

Deuteronomy 34:4

The Lord then said to him, This is the land about which I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, “I will give it to your descendants.” I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you shall not cross over.

Joshua 1:6

Be strong and steadfast, so that you may give this people possession of the land I swore to their ancestors that I would give them.

Joshua 21:42

With each and every one of these cities went the pasture lands round about it.

Judges 11:24

Should you not take possession of that which your god Chemosh gave you to possess, and should we not take possession of all that the Lord, our God, has dispossessed for us?

1 Samuel 12:8

When Jacob and his sons went to Egypt and the Egyptians oppressed them, your ancestors cried out to the Lord. The Lord then sent Moses and Aaron to bring them out of Egypt and settled them in this place.