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Ask it of Me, and I will make the nations...
The terms “inheritance” and “possession” as used here cannot be construed to mean the conquest and subjugation of the nations under the sovereignty of rulers. Homage to God and to His moral Law, joyous devotion to Him and to His will, and girding oneself with purity are the demands made upon the rulers of the nations through the fact of the existence of the Kingdom of David.
[נַחֲלָה] (nachalah: inheritance) and [אֲחֻזָּה] (achuzzah: possession), therefore, denote only the spiritual and ethical conquest, the fact that the ideas and attitudes of nations will fall to the spirit and the doctrine of David and shall remain with it.