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Posted by Psalms on Sunday, 31 January 2016
Psalms 135:12
And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.
135:12. Jehovah is Lord Paramount, and permits people to hold their lands upon lease, terminable at his pleasure. The nations of Canaan had become loathsome with abominable vices, and they were condemned by the great Judge of all the earth to be cut off from the face of the country which they defiled. The twelve tribes were charged to act as their executioners, and as their fee they were to receive Canaan as a possession. Of old the Lord had given this land to Abraham and his descendants by a covenant of salt, but he allowed the Amorites and other tribes to sojourn in it till their iniquity was full, and then he bade his people come and take their own out of the holders’ hands. Canaan was their heritage because he had long before given it to them by promise. The Lord’s chosen still have a heritage from which none can keep them back. Covenant blessings of inestimable value are secured to them. Their heritage comes by gift, though they have to fight for it. Often does it happen when they slay a sin or conquer a difficulty that they are enriched by the spoil: to them even evils work for good, and trials ensure triumphs. No enemy will prevail so as to really injure them, for they will find a heritage where once they were opposed by “all the kingdoms of Canaan.”
The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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