Houses and Cities they didn’t Build

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When the LORD God brought them into the Promised Land, God’s people killed the inhabitants and took their houses and cities.

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

When the LORD God brought them into the Promised Land, God’s people drove out the inhabitants and took their houses and cities.

For God’s people, invading the Promised Land required a great leap of faith. Afterwards, they celebrated a great outpouring of grace and providence.

But for the inhabitants of the land, it was genocide.

 

BIBLE VERSES

 

Numbers 21:25. Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.

Deuteronomy 6:10. When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you–a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, (NLT translation)

Deuteronomy 6:11. houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant–then when you eat and are satisfied, (NLT translation)

Deuteronomy 9:1. Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,

Joshua 24:13. I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities which you didn’t build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you didn’t plant.’

Nehemiah 9:25. They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

 

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