Joshua 24:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting.

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  • Deut 6:10-12 : 10 And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building; 11 And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full; 12 Then take care that you keep your hearts true to the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.
  • Deut 8:7 : 7 For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;
  • Josh 11:13 : 13 As for the towns made on hills of earth, not one was burned by Israel but Hazor, which was burned by Joshua.
  • Josh 21:45 : 45 The Lord kept faith with the house of Israel about all the good which he said he would do for them, and all his words came true.
  • Prov 13:22 : 22 The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.

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    10 And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building;

    11 And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full;

  • Jer 32:22
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    22 And have given them this land, which you gave your word to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

  • Neh 9:24-25
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    24 So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure to do.

    25 And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.

  • Josh 24:11-12
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    11 Then you went over Jordan and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho made war on you, the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Hivites and the Jebusites: and I gave them up into your hands.

    12 And I sent the hornet before you, driving out the two kings of the Amorites before you, not with your sword and your bow.

  • Num 33:53
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    53 And take the land for yourselves, for your resting-place: for to you I have given the land as your heritage.

  • Judg 6:9-10
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    9 And I took you out of the hands of the Egyptians and out of the hands of all who were cruel to you, and I sent them out by force from before you and gave you their land;

    10 And I said to you, I am the Lord your God; you are not to give worship to the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living, but you did not give ear to my voice.

  • Jer 2:7
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    7 And I took you into a fertile land, where you were living on its fruit and its wealth; but when you came in, you made my land unclean, and made my heritage a disgusting thing.

  • Deut 11:9-10
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    9 And that your days may be long in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

    10 For the land where you are going is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you put in your seeds, watering them with your foot, like a planted garden:

  • Deut 26:1
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    1 Now when you have come into the land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage, and you have made it yours and are living in it;

  • Lev 20:24
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    24 But I have said to you, You will take their land and I will give it to you for your heritage, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God who have made you separate from all other peoples.

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    31 For you are about to go over Jordan to take the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you, and it will be your resting-place.

  • Deut 8:7-10
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    7 For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;

    8 A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving olive-trees and honey;

    9 Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.

    10 And you will have food enough and be full, praising the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.

  • Deut 26:9
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    9 And he has been our guide to this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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    38 Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their land and give it to you for your heritage, as at this day.

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    8 See, all the land is before you: go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their seed after them.

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    9 For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Josh 24:8
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    8 And I took you into the lands of the Amorites on the other side of Jordan; and they made war on you, and I gave them into your hands and you took their land; and I sent destruction on them before you.

  • Deut 11:23-24
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    23 Then the Lord will send these nations in flight before you, and you will take the lands of nations greater and stronger than yourselves.

    24 Every place where you put your foot will be yours: from the waste land and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates as far as the Great Sea, will be the limits of your land.

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    3 Every place on which you put your foot I have given to you, as I said to Moses.

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    5 And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.

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    25 And taking in their hands some of the fruit of the land, they came down again to us, and gave us their account, saying, It is a good land which the Lord our God is giving us.

  • Deut 19:1
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    1 When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses;

  • Isa 36:17
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    17 Till I come and take you away to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vine-gardens.

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    12 And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;

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    15 Till the Lord has given your brothers rest, as he has given it to you, and they have taken their heritage in the land which the Lord your God is giving them: then you will go back to the land of your heritage which Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave you on the east side of Jordan.

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    5 Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Deut 1:21
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    21 See now, the Lord your God has put the land into your hands: go up and take it, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said to you; have no fear and do not be troubled.

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    12 And gave their land for a heritage, even for a heritage to Israel his people.