At Matthew 5:5 we read, ‘The meek are blest, because they will inherit the earth.’

What Jesus said at Matthew 5:5 is a direct quotation from Psalm 37:11. The Greek word that was used for inherit here, kleronomesousi, means to receive by lot. The term reminds us of the way things were handled just before the Israelites entered the Promised Land. Some type of ‘lots’ were cast to determine which family would receive each portion of land as their allotment or inheritance. We don’t know how this was done, but it was obviously by some form of chance.

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