Leviticus 20:22

"Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all mine ordinances, and do them; that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, vomit you not out. And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am Jehovah your God, who hath separated you from the peoples. Ye shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, between the unclean fowl and the clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by anything wherewith the ground teemeth, which I have separated from you as unclean. And ye shall be holy unto me: for I Jehovah am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be mine."

Leviticus 20:22 is very significant because it promises Israel that in case they fell into the sinful customs and habits of Canaan, which they were about to enter, then the land would "vomit out" Israel no less than the kingdoms of Canaan were "vomited out" to allow Israel's inheritance of the land. Sadly enough, Israel did exactly what was forbidden here. The prophet Hosea said of Israel, "he has become a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand" (Hosea 12:7). "The word `trafficker' in that passage actually means Canaanite."[11] Thus, Israel, in time, came to all that Canaan had been before it. Note also that Israel was indeed "vomited out" of Palestine exactly for the same reason that the ancient Canaanites were "vomited out." Therefore, there is no more valid claim for the land of Palestine today on the part of Jews than there is for the peoples who were displaced before Israel ever received it. It would be helpful indeed if some of our authorities in Washington seemed to be aware of this.