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Psalm 44:2
You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.
1For 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 days, in the days of old.
2You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.
3For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.
4God, you are my King. Command victories for Jacob!
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God's hand drives nations out and plants Israel in their place, a memory of provision that also confronts you with the violence of Israel's settlement.
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Exodus 15:17You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, LORD, which you have made for yourself to dwell in: the sanctuary, Lord, …Both passages describe God planting his people in a place he provides, with his hands credited for the work.
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 recount God driving out nations and establishing Israel where those nations had lived.
Psalm 80:8You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.The shared language of driving out nations and planting portrays God establishing Israel in the land.
Psalm 111:6He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the heritage of the nations.Both credit God's power for giving his people land that belonged to other nations.
Jeremiah 2:21Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?Both passages describe God planting his people, though Jeremiah goes on to confront what they have become.
2 Chronicles 20:7Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?Both address God as the one who drove out the land's inhabitants and established Israel there.
Acts 7:45which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations whom God drove out before the face of our …Both recall God driving out nations before Israel's ancestors as they came to possess the land.
1 Chronicles 17:9I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will …God's planting of Israel is the shared image: Psalm 44 recalls his work, while Chronicles records his promise of a settled place.
2 Samuel 7:10I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will …Both speak of God planting Israel, with Samuel's passage promising a place where his people will no longer be afflicted.
Joshua 21:43So the LORD gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers. They possessed it, and lived in it.Both attribute Israel's possession of the land to God's action on their behalf.
Psalm 135:10–12He struck many nations, and killed mighty kings—Both recount God's violence against nations; Psalm 135 names the killing of kings.
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 describe Israel becoming established in the land through conquest, with Joshua naming its distribution among the tribes.
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This account gives no warrant to seize what belongs to your neighbor. Israel remembers its place in the land as God's gift, with no ground for boasting in its own strength.
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