land of our sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God” (Genesis 17:8). This was why he brought them out of their slavery in Egypt. This was what their forty years in the desert was always anticipating. This was how the sovereign Lord would now fulfill his often repeated promises. The pattern had been set right back at the beginning of God’s dealings with Abram, when, in Ur of the Chaldeans, he received the divine summons, “Go from your country and