I myself will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled at it. The land laid waste by God is so devastated that even the enemies who inhabit it are appalled. The land that vomited out the Canaanites (Leviticus 18:25) will vomit out Israel — and the evidence of the vomiting will be so severe that the next inhabitants are shocked. The covenant's land theology is consistent: the holy God's land cannot sustain communities that violate the holiness that makes the land habitable for the covenant community.

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