So they struck him, and his sons and all his people, until there was none left him remaining: and they possessed his land.
Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly.
Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father."
"The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: you shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers; and you shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.
If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be to the children of Israel a statute [and] ordinance, as the LORD commanded Moses.'"
They said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; don't bring us over the Jordan."
and the land is subdued before the LORD; then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless towards the LORD, and towards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a possession before the LORD.
Moses said to them, "If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you; then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:
but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan."
We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance [shall remain] with us beyond the Jordan."
The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.
and you shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for I have given given the land to you to possess it.
"Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and you shall give suburbs for the cities around them to the Levites.
Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few: everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levites."
because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession.
Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.
But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.
Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.
The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.
Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
"the LORD possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old.
The slothful man doesn't roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized.
Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
For they didn't get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.
who said, "Let us take possession of God's pasturelands."
He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions;
He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will strike her power in the sea; and she will be devoured with fire.
Therefore as I live, says the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
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