The people of the Negev will take possession of Esau’s mountain, and the people of the Shephelah will take possession of the land of the Philistines. They will also take possession of the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria, and the people of Benjamin will take possession of Gilead.

But Abram said, “O sovereign Lord, by what can I know that I am to possess it?”

For you write down bitter things against me and cause me to inherit the sins of my youth.

Wicked men will be wiped out, but those who rely on the Lord are the ones who will possess the land.

But the oppressed will possess the land and enjoy great prosperity.

who said, “Let’s take over the pastures of God!”

He handed the territory of nations over to them, and they took possession of what other peoples had produced,

because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished, and drowsiness clothes them with rags.

under an unloved woman who is married, and under a female servant who dispossesses her mistress.

For a short time your special nation possessed a land, but then our adversaries knocked down your holy sanctuary.

Abram added, “Since you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!”

The enemy said, ‘I will chase, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand will destroy them.’

I will strike them with the pestilence, and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!”

Moses sent spies to reconnoiter Jaazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.

They are a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites. But the Lord destroyed the Rephaites in advance of the Ammonites, so they dispossessed them and settled down in their place.

If you think, “These nations are more numerous than I – how can I dispossess them?”

you must set apart for yourselves three cities in the middle of your land that the Lord your God is giving you as a possession.

Of Naphtali he said: O Naphtali, overflowing with favor, and full of the Lord’s blessing, possess the west and south.

Then you rise up from your hiding place and seize the city. The Lord your God will hand it over to you.