Some five centuries after Moses and following the death of King Solomon, the people’s disregard for that warning bore dreadful fruit. The nation fell from God’s ways, was torn in two, and eventually saw both the Northern and Southern Kingdoms carried into exile—the Northern never to return. In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus made a similar promise: “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth” (Matthew 5:5). Those who humbly entrust their lives to God enjoy his blessings in whatever land