EXODUS 23:31 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.”
I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out before you. The borders of the promised land are stated at their maximum extent: Red Sea to Mediterranean, desert to Euphrates. This is the full scope of the Abrahamic land promise from Genesis 15:18. Solomon's kingdom came closest to these borders (1 Kings 4:21, 24) but never fully achieved them. Revelation 21:1 describes a new earth — the ultimate fulfillment of the land promise at eschatological scale. The borders God declares in Exodus 23:31 are the outer limit of a promise that points beyond any specific geography to the renewed creation where God's people will fully inhabit what He gives.
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