The Bible presents the land as a gift promised to Abraham’s descendants, held on God’s terms and lost in exile when those terms were broken. The promise runs from Genesis 12:1-3 and 15:18 through the law’s statement that “the land is mine” (Leviticus 25:23). Second Chronicles 7 ties the people’s hold on the land to their faithfulness, Psalm 137 and Jeremiah 29 speak from exile in Babylon, and the prophets look ahead to a Jerusalem where “nation will not take…
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