What Bible testimony is there that God fulfilled His promise to Abraham regarding the land?
Several passages affirm that God gave the land to Abraham’s seed through Isaac and Jacob. The first is in Joshua 21:43,44. “And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which He sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.” “Not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.” (Joshua 23:14) Solomon acknowledged that “there hath not failed one word of all His good promise.”–I Kings 8:36,48,56 More than a thousand years after God’s promise in Gen. 15:18, and in direct reference to it, a chorus of Levites in Jerusalem raised a loud prayer. It was just after the rebuilding of the city walls was finished. “Thou foundest [Abraham’s] heart faithful before Thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land…to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed Thy words.” (Neh. 9:7,8) Those words refer back to Josh. 21:43,44, and acknowledge that God’
