“Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.”
See, I have set the land before you; go in and take possession of the land which the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and to their offspring after them -- the oath to the patriarchs (the Abrahamic covenant) undergirds the gift of the land. Yet the land is not given passively; Israel must 'go in and take possession.' The covenant is unilateral in its promise, but conditional in its realization through faith and obedience.
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