Psalms 105:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

When they were still small in number, and strange in the land;

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  • Gen 34:30 : 30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.
  • Deut 7:7 : 7 The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:
  • Heb 11:9 : 9 By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:
  • Gen 23:4 : 4 I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest.
  • Deut 26:5 : 5 And these are the words which you will say before the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramaean, and he went down with a small number of people into Egypt; there he became a great and strong nation:
  • Isa 51:2 : 2 Let your thoughts be turned to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth: for when he was but one, my voice came to him, and I gave him my blessing, and made him a great people.
  • Ezek 33:24-33 : 24 Son of man, those who are living in these waste places in the land of Israel say, Abraham was but one, and he had land for his heritage: but we are a great number; the land is given to us for our heritage. 25 For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage? 26 You put your faith in your swords, you do disgusting things, everyone takes his neighbour's wife: are you to have the land for your heritage? 27 This is what you are to say to them: The Lord has said, By my life, truly, those who are in the waste places will be put to the sword, and him who is in the open field I will give to the beasts for their food, and those who are in the strong places and in holes in the rocks will come to their death by disease. 28 And I will make the land a waste and a cause of wonder, and the pride of her strength will come to an end; and the mountains of Israel will be made waste so that no one will go through. 29 Then they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a waste and a cause of wonder, because of all the disgusting things which they have done, 30 And as for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking together about you by the walls and in the doorways of the houses, saying to one another, Come now, give ear to the word which comes from the Lord. 31 And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves. 32 And truly you are to them like a love song by one who has a very pleasing voice and is an expert player on an instrument: for they give ear to your words but do them not. 33 And when this comes about (see, it is coming), then it will be clear to them that a prophet has been among them.
  • Acts 7:5 : 5 And God gave him no heritage in it, not even enough to put his foot on: but he gave him an undertaking that he would give it to him and to his children after him, though he had no child at that time.
  • Gen 17:8 : 8 And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.
  • Heb 11:12 : 12 So that from one man, who was near to death, came children in number as the stars in heaven, or as the sand by the seaside, which may not be numbered.

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  • 1 Chr 16:18-20
    3 verses
    90%

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

    19 When you were still small in number, and strange in the land;

    20 When they went about from one nation to another, and from one kingdom to another people;

  • Ps 105:13
    79%

    13 When they went about from one nation to another, and from one kingdom to another people.

  • Ps 105:11
    75%

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

  • Exod 6:4
    71%

    4 And I made an agreement with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their wanderings.

  • Acts 7:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5 And God gave him no heritage in it, not even enough to put his foot on: but he gave him an undertaking that he would give it to him and to his children after him, though he had no child at that time.

    6 And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.

  • Deut 4:27
    71%

    27 And the Lord will send you wandering among the peoples; only a small band of you will be kept from death among the nations where the Lord will send you.

  • Ps 107:4
    70%

    4 They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.

  • Job 15:19
    70%

    19 For only to them was the land given, and no strange people were among them:)

  • Gen 15:13
    69%

    13 And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;

  • Ps 114:1
    69%

    1 When Israel came out of Egypt, the children of Jacob from a people whose language was strange to them;

  • Deut 26:5
    69%

    5 And these are the words which you will say before the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramaean, and he went down with a small number of people into Egypt; there he became a great and strong nation:

  • Heb 11:9
    68%

    9 By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:

  • Acts 7:17
    68%

    17 But when the time was near for putting into effect the undertaking which God had given to Abraham, the people were increasing in Egypt,

  • Ps 105:23-24
    2 verses
    68%

    23 Then Israel came into Egypt, and Jacob was living in the land of Ham.

    24 And his people were greatly increased, and became stronger than those who were against them.

  • Deut 10:19
    68%

    19 So be kind to the man from a strange country who is living among you, for you yourselves were living in a strange country in the land of Egypt.

  • Num 13:18
    68%

    18 And see what the land is like; and if the people living in it are strong or feeble, small or great in number;

  • Ps 78:55
    68%

    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.

  • Neh 9:23
    68%

    23 And you made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven, and took them into the land, of which you had said to their fathers that they were to go in and take it for themselves.

  • Ps 107:39
    68%

    39 And when they are made low, and crushed by trouble and sorrow,

  • Gen 37:1
    68%

    1 Now Jacob was living in the land where his father had made a place for himself, in the land of Canaan.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    68%

    15 For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

  • Exod 1:7
    68%

    7 And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.

  • Gen 47:27
    68%

    27 And so Israel was living among the Egyptians in the land of Goshen; and they got property there, and became very great in numbers and in wealth.

  • Deut 10:22
    67%

    22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you like the stars of heaven in number.

  • Deut 28:62
    67%

    62 And you will become a very small band, though your numbers were like the stars of heaven; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God.

  • Exod 32:13
    67%

    13 Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you gave your oath, saying, I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and all this land will I give to your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for ever.

  • Ps 105:44
    67%

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

  • Gen 36:7
    67%

    7 For their wealth was so great that the land was not wide enough for the two of them and all their cattle.

  • Deut 32:8
    67%

    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.

  • Exod 23:30
    67%

    30 Little by little I will send them away before you, till your numbers are increased and you take up your heritage in the land.

  • 1 Sam 12:8
    67%

    8 When Jacob and his sons had come into Egypt, and were crushed by the Egyptians, the prayers of your fathers came up to the Lord, and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who took your fathers out of Egypt, and he put them into this place.

  • Gen 13:6
    67%

    6 So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together.

  • Num 32:16
    67%

    16 Then they came to him, and said, We will make safe places for our cattle here, and towns for our little ones;

  • Ps 105:17
    67%

    17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was given as a servant for a price:

  • Deut 7:7
    67%

    7 The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:

  • Exod 1:10
    67%

    10 Let us take care for fear that their numbers may become even greater, and if there is a war, they may be joined with those who are against us, and make an attack on us, and go up out of the land.

  • Gen 12:6
    67%

    6 And Abram went through the land till he came to Shechem, to the holy tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were still living in the land.

  • Deut 1:10
    67%

    10 The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.

  • Deut 29:16
    66%

    16 (For you have in mind how we were living in the land of Egypt; and how we came through all the nations which were on your way;

  • Ps 135:12
    66%

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

  • Heb 11:13
    66%

    13 All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.

  • Gen 42:12
    66%

    12 And he said to them, No, but you have come to see how poor the land is.

  • Num 20:15
    66%

    15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we were living in Egypt for a long time; and the Egyptians were cruel to us and to our fathers:

  • Ezek 33:24
    66%

    24 Son of man, those who are living in these waste places in the land of Israel say, Abraham was but one, and he had land for his heritage: but we are a great number; the land is given to us for our heritage.

  • Isa 34:17
    66%

    17 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.

  • Lam 5:2
    66%

    2 Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.