2 Chronicles 20:7

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Our God, you drove out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and gave it as a permanent possession to the descendants of your friend Abraham.

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  • Isa 41:8 : 8 The Lord Encourages His People“You, my servant Israel, Jacob whom I have chosen, offspring of Abraham my friend,
  • Jas 2:23 : 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says,“Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.
  • Ps 44:2 : 2 You, by your power, defeated nations and settled our fathers on their land; you crushed the people living there and enabled our ancestors to occupy it.
  • John 11:11 : 11 After he said this, he added,“Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him.”
  • John 15:15 : 15 I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.
  • Gen 12:7 : 7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said,“To your descendants I will give this land.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
  • Gen 13:15 : 15 I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants forever.
  • Gen 17:7 : 7 I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
  • Exod 6:7 : 7 I will take you to myself for a people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians.
  • Exod 19:5-7 : 5 And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine, 6 and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.” 7 So Moses came and summoned the elders of Israel. He set before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him,
  • Exod 20:2 : 2 “I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
  • Exod 33:2 : 2 I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
  • Josh 24:3 : 3 but I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and brought him into the entire land of Canaan. I made his descendants numerous; I gave him Isaac,
  • Josh 24:13 : 13 I gave you a land in which you had not worked hard; you took up residence in cities you did not build and you are eating the produce of vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.’
  • 1 Chr 17:21-24 : 21 And who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation in the earth? Their God went to claim a nation for himself! You made a name for yourself by doing great and awesome deeds when you drove out nations before your people whom you had delivered from the Egyptian empire and its gods. 22 You made Israel your very own nation for all time. You, O LORD, became their God. 23 So now, O LORD, may the promise you made about your servant and his family become a permanent reality! Do as you promised, 24 so it may become a reality and you may gain lasting fame, as people say,‘The LORD of Heaven’s Armies is the God of Israel.’ The dynasty of your servant David will be established before you,
  • 2 Chr 14:11 : 11 Asa prayed to the LORD his God:“O LORD, there is no one but you who can help the weak when they are vastly outnumbered. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on you and have marched on your behalf against this huge army. O LORD, you are our God; don’t let men prevail against you!”
  • Neh 9:8 : 8 When you perceived that his heart was faithful toward you, you established a covenant with him to give his descendants the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites. You have fulfilled your promise, for you are righteous.

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  • 1 Chr 17:21-22
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    21And who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation in the earth? Their God went to claim a nation for himself! You made a name for yourself by doing great and awesome deeds when you drove out nations before your people whom you had delivered from the Egyptian empire and its gods.

    22You made Israel your very own nation for all time. You, O LORD, became their God.

  • 1 Kgs 8:51-53
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    51After all, they are your people and your special possession whom you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron-smelting furnace.

    52“May you be attentive to your servant’s and your people Israel’s requests for help and may you respond to all their prayers to you.

    53After all, you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, just as you, O Sovereign LORD, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

  • 2 Chr 20:8
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    8They settled down in it and built in it a temple to honor you, saying,

  • Neh 9:7-8
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    7“You are the LORD God who chose Abram and brought him forth from Ur of the Chaldeans. You changed his name to Abraham.

    8When you perceived that his heart was faithful toward you, you established a covenant with him to give his descendants the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites. You have fulfilled your promise, for you are righteous.

  • 2 Sam 7:23-25
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    74%

    23Who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation on the earth? Their God went to claim a nation for himself and to make a name for himself! You did great and awesome acts for your land, before your people whom you delivered for yourself from the Egyptian empire and its gods.

    24You made Israel your very own people for all time. You, O LORD, became their God.

    25So now, O LORD God, make this promise you have made about your servant and his family a permanent reality. Do as you promised,

  • Isa 41:8
    74%

    8The Lord Encourages His People“You, my servant Israel, Jacob whom I have chosen, offspring of Abraham my friend,

  • 2 Chr 20:6
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    6He prayed:“O LORD God of our ancestors, you are the God who lives in heaven and rules over all the kingdoms of the nations. You possess strength and power; no one can stand against you.

  • Exod 32:13
    73%

    13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them,‘I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about I will give to your descendants, and they will inherit it forever.’”

  • Gen 17:8
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    8I will give the whole land of Canaan– the land where you are now residing– to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God.”

  • 2 Chr 20:10-11
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    10Now the Ammonites, Moabites, and men from Mount Seir are coming! When Israel came from the land of Egypt, you did not allow them to invade these lands. They bypassed them and did not destroy them.

    11Look how they are repaying us! They come to drive us out of our allotted land which you assigned to us!

  • Deut 4:38
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    38to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.

  • Acts 7:45
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    45Our ancestors received possession of it and brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors, until the time of David.

  • Deut 9:5
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    5It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Deut 29:13
    72%

    13Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God, just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • 1 Chr 29:18
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    18O LORD God of our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, always maintain these motives of your people and keep them devoted to you.

  • Ps 135:12
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    12He gave their land as an inheritance, as an inheritance to Israel his people.

  • Mic 7:20
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    20You will be loyal to Jacob and extend your loyal love to Abraham, which you promised on oath to our ancestors in ancient times.

  • 1 Chr 22:18
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    18He told them,“The LORD your God is with you! He has made you secure on every side, for he handed over to me the inhabitants of the region and the region is subdued before the LORD and his people.

  • Ps 44:2
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    2You, by your power, defeated nations and settled our fathers on their land; you crushed the people living there and enabled our ancestors to occupy it.

  • Deut 1:8
    70%

    8Look! I have already given the land to you. Go, occupy the territory that I, the LORD, promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.”

  • Josh 24:17-18
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    17For the LORD our God took us and our fathers out of slavery in the land of Egypt and performed these awesome miracles before our very eyes. He continually protected us as we traveled and when we passed through nations.

    18The LORD drove out from before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. So we too will worship the LORD, for he is our God!”

  • Judg 11:23
    70%

    23Since the LORD God of Israel has driven out the Amorites before his people Israel, do you think you can just take it from them?

  • Jer 32:22
    70%

    22You kept the promise that you swore on oath to their ancestors. You gave them a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Isa 63:16
    70%

    16For you are our father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not recognize us. You, LORD, are our father; you have been called our protector from ancient times.

  • 1 Chr 17:26
    70%

    26Now, O LORD, you are the true God; you have made this good promise to your servant.

  • Josh 24:13
    70%

    13I gave you a land in which you had not worked hard; you took up residence in cities you did not build and you are eating the produce of vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.’

  • Deut 4:7
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    7In fact, what other great nation has a god so near to them like the LORD our God whenever we call on him?

  • Gen 13:15
    69%

    15I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants forever.

  • 1 Kgs 8:40
    69%

    40Then they will obey you throughout their lifetimes as they live on the land you gave to our ancestors.

  • Ps 105:11
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    11saying,“To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”

  • Judg 6:9
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    9I rescued you from Egypt’s power and from the power of all who oppressed you. I drove them out before you and gave their land to you.

  • Gen 15:7
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    7The LORD said to him,“I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”

  • Gen 12:7
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    7The LORD appeared to Abram and said,“To your descendants I will give this land.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

  • 2 Sam 7:28
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    28Now, O Sovereign LORD, you are the true God! May your words prove to be true! You have made this good promise to your servant!

  • Jer 7:7
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    7If you stop doing these things, I will allow you to continue to live in this land which I gave to your ancestors as a lasting possession.

  • Deut 26:15
    69%

    15Look down from your holy dwelling place in heaven and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us, just as you promised our ancestors– a land flowing with milk and honey.”

  • 2 Sam 7:9
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    9I was with you wherever you went, and I defeated all your enemies before you. Now I will make you as famous as the great men of the earth.

  • Ps 78:55
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    55He drove the nations out from before them; he assigned them their tribal allotments and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.

  • Deut 1:20
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    20Then I said to you,“You have come to the Amorite hill country which the LORD our God is about to give us.

  • Deut 6:23
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    23He delivered us from there so that he could give us the land he had promised our ancestors.