Isaiah 34:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he has given them their heritage, and by his hand it has been measured out to them: it will be theirs for ever, their resting-place from generation to generation.

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  • Isa 34:10 : 10 It will not be put out day or night; its smoke will go up for ever: it will be waste from generation to generation; no one will go through it for ever.
  • Ps 78:55 : 55 Driving out nations before them, marking out the line of their heritage, and giving the people of Israel their tents for a resting-place.
  • Isa 13:20-22 : 20 People will never be living in it again, and it will have no more men from generation to generation: the Arab will not put up his tent there; and those who keep sheep will not make it a resting-place for their flocks. 21 But the beasts of the waste land will have their holes there; and the houses will be full of crying jackals, and ostriches will have their place there, and evil spirits will be dancing there. 22 And wolves will be answering one another in their towers, and jackals in their houses of pleasure: her time is near, and her days of power will quickly be ended.
  • Isa 17:14 : 14 In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.
  • Josh 18:8 : 8 So the men got up and went; and Joshua gave orders to those who went, to make a record of the land, saying, Go up and down through the land, and make a record of it and come back here to me, and I will make the distribution for you here by the decision of the Lord in Shiloh.
  • Jer 13:25 : 25 This is your fate, the part measured out to you by me, says the Lord, because you have put me out of your memory and put your faith in what is false.
  • Acts 13:19 : 19 And having put to destruction seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them the land for their heritage for about four hundred and fifty years.
  • Acts 17:26 : 26 And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 29 The upright will have the earth for their heritage, and will go on living there for ever.

  • Ps 78:54-55
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    54 And he was their guide to his holy land, even to the mountain, which his right hand had made his;

    55 Driving out nations before them, marking out the line of their heritage, and giving the people of Israel their tents for a resting-place.

  • Deut 32:8-9
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    8 When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind the number of the children of Israel.

    9 For the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land of his heritage.

  • 29 This is the land of which distribution is to be made by the decision of the Lord, among the tribes of Israel for their heritage, and these are their heritages, says the Lord.

  • Num 33:53-54
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    53 And take the land for yourselves, for your resting-place: for to you I have given the land as your heritage.

    54 And you will take up your heritage in the land by the decision of the Lord, to every family its part; the greater the family the greater its heritage, and the smaller the family the smaller will be its heritage; wherever the decision of the Lord gives to any man his part, that will be his; distribution will be made to you by your fathers' tribes.

  • Num 26:55-56
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    55 But let the distribution of the land be made by the decision of the Lord: by the names of the tribes of their fathers let their heritage be given them.

    56 As it is ordered by the decision of the Lord, let distribution be made between those who are more in number and those who are less.

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    21 You will make a division of the land among you, tribe by tribe.

    22 And you are to make a distribution of it, by the decision of the Lord, for a heritage to you and to the men from other lands who are living among you and who have children in your land: they will be the same to you as if they were Israelites by birth, they will have their heritage with you among the tribes of Israel.

    23 In whatever tribe the man from a strange land is living, there you are to give him his heritage, says the Lord.

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    25 And they will be living in the land which I gave to Jacob, my servant, in which your fathers were living; and they will go on living there, they and their children and their children's children, for ever: and David, my servant, will be their ruler for ever.

    26 And I will make an agreement of peace with them: it will be an eternal agreement with them: and I will have mercy on them and make their numbers great, and will put my holy place among them for ever.

  • 4 Now I have given to you, as the heritage of your tribes, all these nations which are still in the land, together with those cut off by me, from Jordan as far as the Great Sea on the west.

  • Josh 18:5-6
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    5 And let them make division of it into seven parts: let Judah keep inside his limit on the south, and let the children of Joseph keep inside their limit on the north.

    6 And you are to have the land marked out in seven parts, and come back to me with the record; and I will make the distribution for you here by the decision of the Lord our God.

  • 14 And you are to make an equal division of it; as I gave my oath to your fathers to give it to you: for this land is to be your heritage.

  • 11 Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the measured line of your heritage:

  • 2 And they will have no heritage among their countrymen: the Lord is their heritage, as he has said to them.

  • 19 And having put to destruction seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them the land for their heritage for about four hundred and fifty years.

  • 29 These are they to whom the Lord gave orders to make the distribution of the heritage among the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

  • 44 And gave them the lands of the nations; and they took the work of the peoples for a heritage;

  • 12 And gave their land for a heritage, even for a heritage to Israel his people.

  • 5 The Lord is my heritage and the wine of my cup; you are the supporter of my right.

  • 2 Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land which is to be your heritage, the land of Canaan inside these limits,)

  • 13 And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel saying, This is the land which is to be your heritage, by the decision of the Lord, which by the Lord's order is to be given to the nine tribes and the half-tribe:

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    17 And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;

    18 Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the measured line of your heritage:

  • 10 And Joshua made the distribution for them in Shiloh by the decision of the Lord, marking out the land for the children of Israel by their divisions.

  • 22 Those who have his blessing will have the earth for their heritage; but those who are cursed by him will be cut off.

  • 28 And they are to have no heritage; I am their heritage: you are to give them no property in Israel; I am their property.

  • 12 Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he has taken for his heritage.

  • 21 And gave their land to his people for a heritage: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

  • 35 For God will be the saviour of Zion, and the builder of the towns of Judah; so that it may be their resting-place and heritage.

  • 17 You will take them in, planting them in the mountain of your heritage, the place, O Lord, where you have made your house, the holy place, O Lord, the building of your hands.

  • 34 But the land on the outskirts of their towns may not be exchanged for money, for it is their property for ever.

  • 8 His food will be the same as theirs, in addition to what has come to him as the price of his property.

  • 51 These are the heritages which Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun, and the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel gave out at Shiloh, by the decision of the Lord, at the door of the Tent of meeting. So the distribution of the land was complete.

  • Ps 132:13-14
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    13 For the Lord's heart is on Zion, desiring it for his resting-place.

    14 This is my rest for ever: here will I ever be; for this is my desire.

  • 2 Their heritage by the Lord's decision, as he gave orders by Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe.

  • 18 And you are to take one chief from every tribe to make the distribution of the land.

  • 43 So the Lord gave to Israel all the land which he gave by oath to their fathers; so it became their heritage and their living-place.

  • 5 For this cause you will have no one to make the decision by the measuring line in the meeting of the Lord.

  • 39 And your little ones, who, you said, would come into strange hands, your children, who now have no knowledge of good or evil, they will go into that land, and to them I will give it and it will be theirs.

  • 33 A thing may be put to the decision of chance, but it comes about through the Lord.

  • 9 And I will take a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah one who will have my mountains for a heritage: and the people I have taken to be mine will have it for themselves, and my servants will have their resting-place there.

  • 7 And so no property will be handed from tribe to tribe among the children of Israel; but every one of the children of Israel will keep the heritage of his father's tribe.