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Matthew 5:5

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Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

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Jerusalem is not named in Matthew 5:5, though it was Israel’s covenant center and the city associated with God’s promised kingdom. Jesus’ promise that the meek will inherit the earth expands Old Testament inheritance language beyond a particular land to God’s renewed creation.

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Matthew 5:5 mentions Jerusalem.

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