1 Chronicles 16:19

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

When ye were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it;

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Archaic language reduces readability
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Gen 34:30 : 30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
Deut 7:7 : 7 Jehovah did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all peoples:
Acts 7:5 : 5 and he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: and he promised that he would give it to him in possession, and to his seed after him, when [as yet] he had no child.
Heb 11:13 : 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Ps 105:11-13
3 verses
90%
11Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;
12When they were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it.
13And they went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people.
1 Chr 16:20
78%
20And they went about from nation to nation, And from one kingdom to another people.
1 Chr 16:18
77%
18Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;
Deut 4:27
75%
27And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the nations, whither Jehovah shall lead you away.
Deut 10:19
74%
19Love ye therefore the sojourner; for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Exod 6:4
74%
4And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, wherein they sojourned.
Deut 29:16
73%
16(for ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which ye passed;
Job 15:19
73%
19Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):
Deut 26:5
72%
5And thou shalt answer and say before Jehovah thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
Acts 7:6
71%
6And God spake on this wise, that his seed should sojourn in a strange land, and that they should bring them into bondage, and treat them ill, four hundred years.
Deut 4:20
71%
20But Jehovah hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as at this day.
Neh 9:23
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23Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land concerning which thou didst say to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
Jer 5:19
71%
19And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah our God done all these things unto us? then shalt thou say unto them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
Deut 28:62
71%
62And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God.
1 Chr 29:15
71%
15For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Ps 114:1
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1When Israel went forth out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
Exod 13:11
70%
11And it shall be, when Jehovah shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,
Acts 7:17
70%
17But as the time of the promise drew nigh which God vouchsafed unto Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
Exod 23:30
70%
30By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
Deut 7:7
70%
7Jehovah did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all peoples:
Deut 1:10
70%
10Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Gen 15:13
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13And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
Exod 19:6
69%
6and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
Judg 11:16
69%
16but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness unto the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;
Deut 6:10
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10And it shall be, when Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee, great and goodly cities, which thou buildest not,
Deut 26:19
69%
19and to make thee high above all nations that he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that thou mayest be a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, as he hath spoken.
Judg 6:9
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9and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land;
Acts 13:18-19
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69%
18And for about the time of forty years as a nursing-father bare he them in the wilderness.
19And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave [them] their land for an inheritance, for about four hundred and fifty years:
Deut 1:19
69%
19And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as Jehovah our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
Lev 26:9
69%
9And I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
1 Chr 16:16
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16[ The covenant] which he made with Abraham, And his oath unto Isaac,
Gen 28:4
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4and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land of thy sojournings, which God gave unto Abraham.
Exod 32:13
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13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
Deut 10:22
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22Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now Jehovah thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Deut 19:1
69%
1When Jehovah thy God shall cut off the nations, whose land Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;
Num 13:18
69%
18and see the land, what it is; and the people that dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;
Lev 19:33
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33And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong.
Exod 3:17
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17and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
Num 20:15
69%
15how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:
Neh 9:15
69%
15and gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commandedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
Gen 26:3
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3sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
Deut 32:8
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8When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
Deut 1:22
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22And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities unto which we shall come.
Deut 8:16
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16who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end:
Deut 4:38
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38to drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as at this day.
Gen 15:19
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19the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
Num 32:16
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16And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones: