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Psalm 135:12

and gave their land for a heritage, a heritage to Israel, his people.

10He struck many nations, and killed mighty kings—
11Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan—
12and gave their land for a heritage, a heritage to Israel, his people.
13Your name, LORD, endures forever; your renown, LORD, throughout all generations.
14For the LORD will judge his people and have compassion on his servants.
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The repeated “heritage” names Israel’s gift of land after the deaths of kings, making this a remembrance of God’s provision through conquest.

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Psalm 78:55He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.Both passages describe God giving Israel land as an inheritance after driving out or defeating the nations.
Psalm 136:21–22and gave their land as an inheritance, for his loving kindness endures forever;Both passages credit God with giving the land as an inheritance; Psalm 136 links that gift to his enduring loving kindness.
Isaiah 58:14then you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your …Both passages speak of a heritage associated with Israel or Jacob, with the LORD as the one who provides it.
Numbers 33:54You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the larger groups you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a …Both passages name the land as Israel’s inheritance; Numbers gives instructions for its distribution among families and tribes.
Psalm 44:1–3For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm. We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us what work you did in their …Both passages look back to God’s work in Israel’s past; Psalm 44 describes that history being passed down by ancestors.
Joshua 12:7These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount …Both passages connect defeated kings with land given to Israel, while Joshua names its distribution among the tribes.
Deuteronomy 29:8We took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.Both passages describe conquered land becoming an inheritance for Israelites; Deuteronomy names the tribes receiving that portion.
Joshua 11:23So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by …Both passages describe land given to Israel as an inheritance following conquest; Joshua also records the land’s rest from war.
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Encouragement

The land was a heritage God gave to Israel, whom the verse names as “his people.” That gift belongs to a specific history: God provided land for his people.

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