your possession before] That is, the Lord will take notice of it, and will give his approbation to it, as if it had happened to be your part by lot; yet it is probable they were too much set upon that portion of earth, for it is not without some note of their fault and punishment, that as they were the first that had their portion of inheritance assigned them, so they were the first that were carried captives out of their land, 1 Chron. 5. 25, 26.