What was promised?
Genesis 15:18, God formalizes this covenant unconditionally and specifies the land, which Israel has never possessed in its entirety - so far. “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates- the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.””
Genesis 15:18 and Joshua 1:4 combined, and judging from a map of today’s boundaries, this includes:
... everything from the Nile in Egypt to Lebanon and
... everything from the Mediterranean Sea to the Euphrates River
In other words:
... all the land holdings of Israel today,
... plus all of the land the Palestinians hold in the West Bank & Gaza,
... plus some of Egypt and Syria,
... plus ALL of Jordan,
... plus some of Saudi Arabia & Iraq.
I don’t see a time in history that Israel possessed this entire territory. Beyond that is God’s statement that it would belong to Abram’s descendants “forever”.
best,
ampu