Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-A'raaf, Ayah 137
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And We bequeathed upon the people who were oppressed through bondage namely the Children of Israel the eastern parts of the land and the western parts thereof which We had blessed with water and trees allatī bāraknā fīhā ‘which We had blessed’ is an adjectival qualification of al-ard ‘the land’ and this was Syria and the fair word of your Lord was fulfilled which was His saying exalted be He Yet We desired to be gracious to those who were oppressed in the land... to the end of the verse Q. 285 for the Children of Israel because they endured patiently persecution at the hands of their enemy; and We destroyed utterly what Pharaoh and his folk had been creating by way of architecture and what they had been erecting read ya‘rishūn or ya‘rushūn what they had been raising of edifices.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(And We caused the folk who were despised) who were humiliated (to inherit the eastern parts of the land) the land of Jerusalem, Palestine, Jordan and Egypt (and the western parts thereof which We had blessed) part of it with water and trees. (And the fair word of the Lord) to reward them with Paradise or victory (was fulfilled) became incumbent (for the Children of Israel because of their endurance) in the face of affliction; it is also said: for their endurance upon their religion; (and We annihilated) destroyed ((all) that Pharaoh and his folk had done) of castles and townships (and that they had contrived) and that which they had planted of trees and vines; it is also said that this means: that which they had built.