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Psalm 136:21

and gave their land as an inheritance, for his loving kindness endures forever;

19Sihon king of the Amorites, for his loving kindness endures forever;
21and gave their land as an inheritance, for his loving kindness endures forever;
23who remembered us in our low estate, for his loving kindness endures forever;
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The words “their land” keep the cost of conquest in view, even as the song names Israel's inheritance as a gift of God's enduring kindness.

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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 God providing a heritage, with Isaiah naming the heritage of Jacob and the psalm naming land given.
Nehemiah 9:22–24Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you allotted according to their portions. So they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of …Nehemiah names Sihon and Og as kings whose land God gave Israel, the same kings named just before this verse.
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 psalms describe God giving land as an inheritance, with Psalm 78 also naming the displacement of nations.
Psalm 44:2–3You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.Both passages credit God with establishing Israel where other peoples had lived, describing conquest as part of that history.
Deuteronomy 3:12–17This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities, I gave to …Deuteronomy names land assigned to Reuben and Gad, giving geographic detail to the inheritance celebrated in the psalm.
Numbers 32:33–42Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king …Numbers records Moses distributing the kingdoms of Sihon and Og, whose land the psalm celebrates as God's gift.
Psalm 105:44He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,Both psalms say God gave Israel land that had belonged to other peoples.
Joshua 12:1–7Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the …Joshua recounts Israel defeating kings and possessing their land, the conquest behind the inheritance celebrated in the psalm.
Psalm 135:12and gave their land for a heritage, a heritage to Israel, his people.Both psalms describe God giving the kings' land as a heritage to Israel.
Joshua 13:1–21Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. The LORD said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.Both passages concern land, though Joshua emphasizes how much remained to be possessed while the psalm celebrates land given.
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The refrain reaches beyond this transfer of land: the gift belongs to Israel's history, and the praise rests on God's loving kindness that endures forever.

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