There are other aspects of these traditions that are not comforting for the landed. For instance, they claim to be the owners of the land. Yet the Promised Land tradition affirms that the earth is the Lord's. If the land is inheritance given to us by God that we might be God's stewards of it, then the landed can't simply do with it as they please. This has implications not only for the just distribution of the land, but even for how the land is used and cared for.
Private rights become relative to social needs.
It is morally required of the landholder to see that private use of land contributes toward upbuilding the whole community. Rather, land as inheritance is given as a gracious gift for the well-being of all people. It is to be shared and passed on to future generations. Indeed, to avoid these central features of the Joshua and the Promised Land traditions, the powerful will preach that such concerns really aren't God's concerns. They say that God is interested in spiritual, not earthly things.