Joshua 24:13
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So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities that you did not build, and now you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.’
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For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
Not one of all the LORD’s good promises to the house of Israel had failed; everything was fulfilled.
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds, except Hazor, which Joshua burned.