Albert Barnes Commentary Psalms 105:11

"Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;" — Psalms 105:11 (ASV)

Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan - (Genesis 13:14–15).

The lot of your inheritance - Or, that shall be the lot of your inheritance; or, what you shall inherit. The margin is, “the cord.” The Hebrew word - חבל chebel - means properly a cord, a rope; and then, a measuring-line. Hence, it means a portion “measured out” and assigned to anyone as land (Joshua 17:14; Joshua 19:9). Compare (Psalms 16:6). The meaning is, that the land of Canaan was given by promise to the patriarchs as their lot or portion of the earth; as that which they and their descendants were to possess as their own.