53And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
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For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.
And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 50-56)While the children of Israel were in the wilderness their total separation from all other people kept them out of the way of temptation to idolatry, and perhaps this was one thing intended by their long confinement in the wilderness, that thereby the idols of Egypt might be forgotten, and the people aired (as it were) and purified from that infection, and the generation that entered Canaan might b…
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