 and that was their covenant you follow the torah i give you the land the land in the middle east belongs to god and god leased it out to the to the hebrews to the children of israel as long as they follow the torah and they did that on and off for about 1400 years and then finally in 70 a.d according to deuteronomy 28 you can read it for yourself uh god said you know what i've had enough and then he kicked the jews out of the middle out of the promised land because they rejected the torah