“From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.”
From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river Euphrates — the territorial promise extends from south to north and east to west, defining a land far more expansive than Israel will actually possess. This may represent the idealized extent of the promise or the full covenant scope that remains partially unfulfilled in the historical narrative, teaching dependence upon God's word rather than measurement of success by territorial extent.
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