The Promised Land:
The Jew's Land
Gn 31:3
Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your
relatives, and I will be with you.”
Gn 32:9
Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who
said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will
do you good,’
Ex 23:10,19,26,33
10 “For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its
increase,
19 The first of the first fruits of your
ground you shall bring into the house of Yahweh your God.
“You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
26 No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the
number of your days.
33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if
you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
Ex 34:24
For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall
any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three
times in the year.
Lv 14:34
“When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a
possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a house in the land of your
possession,
Lv 19:9,33
9 “‘When you reap the harvest of your land,
you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather
the gleanings of your harvest.
33 “‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you
shall not do him wrong.
Lv 23:22
“‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you
shall not wholly reap into the corners of your field, neither shall you gather
the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the
foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.’”
Lv 25:7,9,45
7 For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all
its increase be for food.
9 Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month.
On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the
trumpet throughout all your land.
45 Moreover of the children of the strangers who sojourn among you, of them you
may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in
your land; and they will be your property.
Lv 26:1,5,6,20,33
1 “‘You shall make for yourselves no idols,
neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a
pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone
in your land, to bow down to it: for I am Yahweh your God.
5 Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the
sowing time; and you shall eat your bread to the
full, and dwell in your land safely.
6 “‘I will give peace in the land, and you
shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid; and I will remove evil animals
out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
20 and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its
increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
33 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after
you: and your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
Nm 10:9
When you go to war in your land against the
adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound
an alarm with the trumpets; and you shall be
remembered before Yahweh your God, and you shall
be saved from your enemies.
Dt 11:14
that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the
latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil.
Dt 12:19
Take heed to yourself that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in
your land.
Dt 15:7
If there be with you a poor man, one of your brothers, within any of your gates
in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart,
nor shut your hand from your poor brother;
Dt 19:2,3,10
2 you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which
Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
3 You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land, which
Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer
may flee there.
10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your
God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.
Dt
28:12,18,24,33,40,42,51,52
12 Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of
your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall
lend to many nations, and you shall not borrow.
18 The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your
livestock, and the young of your flock shall be cursed.
24 Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it
come down on you, until you are destroyed.
33 The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you
don’t know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always;
40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not
anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast its fruit.
42 All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess.
51 and shall eat the fruit of your
livestock, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also
shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or
the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
52 They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls
come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall
besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God
has given you.
Dt 29:28
and Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great
indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.
Dt 30:9
Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the
fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your
ground, for good: for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he
rejoiced over your fathers;
1Kg 8:48
if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land
of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their
land,
which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house
which I have built for your name:
2Ch 6:38
if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land
of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray toward their
land, which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and
toward the house which I have built for your name:
2Ch 7:14
if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and
seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and
will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Is 1:7
Your country is desolate.
Your cities are burned with fire.
Strangers devour your land in your presence,
and it is desolate,
as overthrown by strangers.
Is 14:1,2
1 For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set
them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will
unite with the house of Jacob.
2 The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of
Israel will possess them in Yahweh’s land for servants and for handmaids. They
will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over
their oppressors.
Is 62:4
You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed
Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh
delights in you, and your land shall be married.
Jr 5:19
It shall happen, when you shall say, Why has
Yahweh our God done all these things to us? then you shall say to them, Like as
you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in
your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land
that is not yours.
Jr 16:15
but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the
north, and from all the countries where he had driven them. I will bring them
again into their land that I gave to their fathers.
Jr 23:8
but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the seed of the house of Israel
out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them.
They shall dwell in their own land.
Jr 27:10
for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I
should drive you out, and you should perish.
Jr 31:17
There is hope for your latter end, says Yahweh; and your children shall
come again to their own border.
Jr 42:12
I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return
to your own land.
Jr 51:5
For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Yahweh of Armies; though
their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
Jr 52:27
The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of
Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
Ezk 28:25
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from
the peoples among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in
the sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave
to my servant Jacob.
Ezk 34:13,27
13 I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries,
and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains
of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
27 The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its
increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am
Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out
of the hand of those who made slaves of them.
Ezk 36:17,24
17 Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it
by their way and by their doings: their way before me was as the uncleanness of
a woman in her impurity.
24 For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the
countries, and will bring you into your own land.
Ezk 37:14,21
14 I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall
live, and I will place you in your own land: and you
shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it, says Yahweh.
21 Say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take the children of
Israel from among the nations, where they are gone, and will gather them on
every side, and bring them into their own land:
Ezk 39:26,28
26 They shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have
trespassed against me, when they shall dwell securely in their land, and none
shall make them afraid;
28 They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, in that I caused them to go into
captivity among the nations, and have gathered them to their own land; and I
will leave none of them any more there;
Hs 10:1
Israel is a luxuriant vine that puts forth his fruit.
According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his
altars.
As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.
Am 9:15
I will plant them on their land,
and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I
have given them,”
says Yahweh your God.
Mc 5:6
They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword,
and the land of Nimrod in its gates.
He will deliver us from the Assyrian,
when he invades our land,
and when he marches within our border.