2 Chronicles 20:7 says God gave the land to Abraham's descendants forever. How is that true if Israel lost it?

2 Chronicles 20, verse 7. Are You not the God who is in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. Power and might are in Your hand, and no one can withstand You. O our God, did You not drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham Your friend? They have lived in it and have built in it a sanctuary for Your name, saying, if calamity comes upon us, whether the sword of judgment or plague or famine, we will stand in Your presence before this temple that bears Your name and will cry out to You in our distress, and You will hear us and save us. It says in verse 7, O our God, did You not drive out the inhabitants of this land? What land? They went through the desert, came to the land of Canaan that God promised, and they overtook the people that lived there. And that's what he's talking about. Did You not drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham Your friend? So we have a discrepancy here. Why? It was not given to them forever. And it says descendants here: forever to the descendants of Abraham. Not Abraham. And Hebrews makes a big deal of that. He never received any land. So that's the only one that received land forever, that is, without end. Gave it forever to the descendants of Abraham. Is that true? So do we have something in Scripture that's false? No, because of the Hebrew word here, olam. It's one of those words where it's contextually based. In 2 Chronicles 20, verse 7: You did drive out the inhabitants of the land, to the seed of Abraham Your friend, le olam, forever. So it is the same word, olam, and olam can mean forever in a context that fits that definition. But it can also mean a long time, something that we're not going to count because it's long. It's just a long time. But what's that verse? Isaiah 42:7, I think that's the verse, if I remember correctly. Or is it Isaiah 47? I can't remember. Is it 45:7? At any rate, I may just have to give up and tell you. It says, you have offended me for a long time. That's one of the verses where olam is used, but it's not forever. It's not saying you have offended me forever or you will offend me forever. It's actually in the perfect tense, so we know it's past, and it says, you have offended me for a long time. Now, I hope I can think of it before the show ends. But that's the meaning that would fit back in 2 Chronicles chapter 20. So in other words, verse 7 would be translated as: O our God, did You not drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it to them for indefinite time, or a long time, to the descendants of Your friend Abraham? Indefinite time might be better to use, because it's like God is saying, as long as you obey, you can stay in the land. That's what He said in Deuteronomy 28. So it's indefinite. Indefinite means it can end. We just don't know when. Obviously, forever without end is not what he meant here. So it's a tricky word, and it's even tricky in English. You have to be careful how you use it. So when you see forever, even as we saw it a few weeks ago in Exodus 32, verse 13, where Moses used it. He was telling God, didn't You give Abraham the land forever? And that all had to be straightened out, what that meant, because Abraham was going to receive the land forever, but not the descendants of Abraham. They were going to receive it, but forever certainly wasn't the case.