... I noticed no one mentioning the obvious... that the Israelite PEOPLE, not the land, of Israel are the Lord’s people.
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I leave the scripture chase to you the reader... the exercise will do you good.
Alrighty then!
Genesis 28:4
May He also give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your descendants with you, that you may possess the land of your sojournings, which God gave to Abraham.”
Genesis 35:12
“The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac,
I will give it to you,
And I will give the land to your descendants after you.”
Exodus 33:1
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, “Depart, go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give it.’
Deuteronomy 2:12
The Horites formerly lived in Seir, but the sons of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did to the land of their possession which the Lord gave to them.)
Deuteronomy 3:18
“Then I commanded you at that time, saying, ‘The Lord your God has given you this land to possess it; all you valiant men shall cross over armed before your brothers, the sons of Israel.
Deuteronomy 6:10
“Then it shall come about when the Lord your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you, great and splendid cities which you did not build,
Deuteronomy 10:11
Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, proceed on your journey ahead of the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.’
Deuteronomy 11:9
so that you may prolong your days on the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 11:21
so that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens remain above the earth.
Deuteronomy 26:3
You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘I declare this day to the Lord my God that I have entered the land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’
Deuteronomy 28:11
The Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.
Deuteronomy 31:7
Then Moses called to Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall give it to them as an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 34:4
Then the Lord said to him, “This is the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants’; I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.”
Joshua 1:6
Be strong and courageous, for you shall give this people possession of the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
Joshua 21:43
So the Lord gave Israel all the land which He had sworn to give to their fathers, and they possessed it and lived in it.
Judges 6:9
I delivered you from the hands of the Egyptians and from the hands of all your oppressors, and dispossessed them before you and gave you their land ,
Nehemiah 9:8
“You found his heart faithful before You,
And made a covenant with him
To give him the land of the Canaanite,
Of the Hittite and the Amorite,
Of the Perizzite, the Jebusite and the Girgashite—
To give it to his descendants.
And You have fulfilled Your promise,
For You are righteous.
Nehemiah 9:15
“You provided bread from heaven for them for their hunger,
You brought forth water from a rock for them for their thirst,
And You told them to enter in order to possess
The land which You swore to give them.
Nehemiah 9:36
“Behold, we are slaves today,
And as to the land which You gave to our fathers to eat of its fruit and its bounty,
Behold, we are slaves in it.
Psalm 135:12
And He gave their land as a heritage,
A heritage to Israel His people.
Psalm 136:21-22
And gave their land as a heritage,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting,
Even a heritage to Israel His servant,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting.
Jeremiah 7:7
then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
Jeremiah 32:22
and gave them this land , which You swore to their forefathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Jeremiah 25:5
saying, ‘Turn now everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and dwell on the land which the Lord has given to you and your forefathers forever and ever;
Jeremiah 24:10
I will send the sword, the famine and the pestilence upon them until they are destroyed from the land which I gave to them and their forefathers.’”
Jeremiah 30:3
For behold, days are coming,’ declares the Lord, ‘when I will restore the fortunes of My people Israel and Judah.’ The Lord says, ‘I will also bring them back to the land that I gave to their forefathers and they shall possess it.’”
Ezekiel 36:28
You will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers; so you will be My people, and I will be your God.
Amos 9:15
“I will also plant them on their land ,
And they will not again be rooted out from their land
Which I have given them,”
Says the Lord your God.
Luke 20:16
He will come and destroy these vine-growers and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard it, they said, “May it never be!”
Acts 7:5
But He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground, and yet, even when he had no child, He promised that He would give it to him as a possession, and to his descendants after him.
Acts 13:19
When He had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He distributed their land as an inheritance—all of which took about four hundred and fifty years.