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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Deuteronomy 1:8

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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1:8 occupy it (literally acquire it as an inheritance): The land was already Israel’s because God had promised it to the nation’s ancestors centuries earlier (Gen 15:18-21; 26:3; Exod 23:31). Israel was not seizing new territory from its rightful owners but was taking possession of land occupied by squatters.
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