The Lord will certainly have compassion on Jacob; ¹  he will again choose Israel as his special people ²  and restore ³  them to their land. Resident foreigners will join them and unite with the family ⁴  of Jacob.

Then Abimelech said, “Look, my land is before you; live wherever you please.” ¹ 

When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,

Trust in the Lord and do what is right! Settle in the land and maintain your integrity! ¹ 

‘Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat what they produce.

Then I will make their waters calm, ¹  and will make their streams flow like olive oil, declares the sovereign Lord.

If we do so, ¹  won’t their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So let’s consent to their demand, so they will live among us.”

Then God said to Jacob, “Go up at once ¹  to Bethel ²  and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.” ³ 

You will by no means enter into the land where ¹  I swore ²  to settle ³  you. The only exceptions are Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

This is exactly what he did for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir when he destroyed the Horites before them so that they could dispossess them and settle in their area to this very day.

Then Naomi ¹  said, “Stay put, ²  my daughter, until you know how the matter turns out. For the man will not rest until he has taken care of the matter today.”

If you people who remain in Judah do that, then listen to what the Lord says. The Lord God of Israel who rules over all ¹  says, ‘If you are so determined ²  to go to Egypt that you go and settle there,

And, after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ ¹  will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. ² 

The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; ¹  settle down in the land that I will point out to you. ² 

Zebulun will live ¹  by the haven of the sea and become a haven for ships; his border will extend to Sidon. ² 

When ¹  you enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you occupy it and live in it,

For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your children will conquer ¹  nations and will resettle desolate cities.

So now be very sure of this: You will die from war, starvation, or disease in the place where you want to go and live.”

“Hazor will become a permanent wasteland, a place where only jackals live. ¹  No one will live there. No human being will settle in it.” ² 

Now such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and so provide their own food to eat. ¹