When G-d made a covenant with Abraham, He said (Genesis 15:18): “I have given your offspring this land from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates. After that, in the Torah (15:19-21) the lands of ten peoples are listed: the Kenyans, the Knesites, the Kadmonites, the Hitites, the Prizeans, the Rephaim, the Emorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
RASHI comments that ten nations are listed here, but He gave only the lands of seven peoples to the Jews (see Devarim 7:1), and the lands of three other peoples - Edom, Moab and Amun (they are also Knanim, Knizim, and Kadmonim) - will become the property of the Jewish people in the future. As it is said (Isaiah 11:14): "Edom and Moab are subject to them, and the sons of Amun are subject to them."
The question arises: where are these three lands that we will receive in the future?
In the Jerusalem Talmud there is a dispute on this topic: Rabbi Yehuda says that these are Arabia, Salmiya and Nabatiyeh. Rabbi Shimon believes that these are Asia, Spain and Damascus. Rabbi Eliezer son of Yaakov believes that these are Asia, Carthage (Tunisia) and Turkey. And according to Rabbi, this is Edom, Moab and the beginning of Ammon, and RASHI thinks so.
In any case, according to Rebbe SHLITA King Moshiach, during the Redemption, the peoples of the world will themselves give all these lands to the Jews and there will be no need to fight for this.
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