Psalms 105:12

Bishops' Bible (1568)

When they were a fewe men in number, and had ben straungers but a litle whyle in it:

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  • Gen 34:30 : 30 But Iacob sayde to Simeon & Leui: ye haue troubled me, and made me to be abhorred of the inhabitours of the land of the Chanaanite and the Pherezite: and I beyng fewe in number, they shall gather the selues together against me, and slay me, and so shall I and my house be destroyed.
  • Deut 7:7 : 7 The Lorde dyd not set his loue vpon you, nor chose you because ye were mo in number then any people (for ye were the fewest of all people)
  • Heb 11:9 : 9 By fayth he remoued into the lande of promise, as into a straunge countrey, whe he had dwelt in tabernacles, with Isaac and Iacob, heires with hym of the same promise:
  • Gen 23:4 : 4 I am a straunger and a foriner amongest you: geue me a possession to bury in with you, that I may bury my corse out of my sight.
  • Deut 26:5 : 5 And thou shalt aunswere and say before the Lorde thy God: The Syrians went about to destroy my father, and he went downe into Egypt, and so soiourned there with a fewe folke, and grewe there vnto a nation great, mightie, and full of people.
  • Isa 51:2 : 2 Consider Abraham your father, and Sara that bare you, how that I called hym alone, and blessed hym, and encreased hym.
  • Ezek 33:24-33 : 24 Thou sonne of man, these that dwell in the wasted lande of Israel talke and say: Abraham was but one man, and he had the lande in possession: nowe are we many, and the lande is geuen vs to possesse also. 25 And therefore tel them, thus saith the Lorde God, In the blood haue ye eaten, your eyes haue ye lift vp to idols, and haue shed blood: shall ye then haue the lande in possession? 26 Ye leane vpon your swordes, ye worke abhominations, euery one defileth his neighbours wyfe: and shall ye then possesse the lande? 27 Say thou thus vnto them, thus saith the lorde God: As truely as I liue, they that are in the desolate places shall fall by the sworde, and him that is vpon the fielde wyll I geue vnto the beastes to be deuoured: and they that be in the strong holdes and dennes shall dye of the pestilence. 28 For I wyll make the lande so desolate and waste, that the pompe of her strength shall ceasse: the mountaynes of Israel shalbe so waste, that no man shall trauaile thereby. 29 Then shall they knowe that I am the Lorde, when I make the land desolate and waste, because of all their abhominations that they haue wrought. 30 And thou sonne of man, the children of thy people that talke of thee by the waters and in the doores of their houses, and speake one to another, euery one to his brother, saying, Come I praye you, let vs heare what worde is gone foorth from the Lorde: 31 They come vnto thee as the people vseth to come, and my people syt before thee, and heare thy wordes, but they do not therafter: for in their mouthes they make a iest of them, and their heart goeth after their couetousnes. 32 And lo, thou art vnto them as a testing song of one that hath a pleasaunt voyce, and can sing well: for they heare thy wordes, but do them not. 33 When this commeth to passe (lo it commeth:) then shall they knowe that there hath ben a prophete among them.
  • Acts 7:5 : 5 And he gaue hym none inheritaunce in it, no not the breadth of a foote: and promised that he woulde geue it to hym to possesse, and to his seede after hym, when as yet he had no chylde.
  • Gen 17:8 : 8 And I wyll geue vnto thee and to thy seede after thee, the lande wherein thou art a strauger euen al the lande of Chanaan, for an euerlastyng possession, and wyll be their God.
  • Heb 11:12 : 12 And therfore sprang there of one, euen of one whiche was as good as dead so many in multitude, as are the starres in the skye, and as the sande the whiche is by the sea shore innumerable.

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  • 1 Chr 16:18-20
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    90%

    18Saying, vnto thee I wyll geue the lande of Chanaan: the lot of your inheritaunce.

    19When they were a fewe men in number, and had ben straungers but a litle while in it:

    20and when they went from one nation to another, from one kingdome to another people,

  • Ps 105:13
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    13and when they went from one nation to another, from one kingdome to another people.

  • Ps 105:11
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    11Saying, vnto thee I wyll geue the lande of Chanaan: the lot of your inheritaunce.

  • Exod 6:4
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    4Moreouer I made a couenaunt with them, to geue them the lande of Chanaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were straungers.

  • Acts 7:5-6
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    5And he gaue hym none inheritaunce in it, no not the breadth of a foote: and promised that he woulde geue it to hym to possesse, and to his seede after hym, when as yet he had no chylde.

    6God veryly spake on this wyse, that his seede shoulde soiourne in a straunge lande, and that they shoulde kepe it in bondage, and entreate them euyl foure hundreth yeres.

  • Deut 4:27
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    27And the Lord shall scatter you among the people, and ye shalbe left fewe in number among the nations whyther the Lorde shall bryng you.

  • Ps 107:4
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    4They went astray out of the way in solitarines and in wildernes, and found no citie to dwell in:

  • Job 15:19
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    19Unto whom alone the earth was geue, and no straunger went among them.

  • Gen 15:13
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    13And he sayde vnto Abram: Knowe this of a suertie, that thy seede shalbe a straunger in a lande that is not theirs, and shall serue them, and they shall entreate them euyll foure hundreth yeres.

  • Ps 114:1
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    1When Israel came out of Egypt: & the house of Iacob from among the barbarous people.

  • Deut 26:5
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    5And thou shalt aunswere and say before the Lorde thy God: The Syrians went about to destroy my father, and he went downe into Egypt, and so soiourned there with a fewe folke, and grewe there vnto a nation great, mightie, and full of people.

  • Heb 11:9
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    9By fayth he remoued into the lande of promise, as into a straunge countrey, whe he had dwelt in tabernacles, with Isaac and Iacob, heires with hym of the same promise:

  • Acts 7:17
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    17But when the tyme of the promyse drewe nye, whiche God had sworne to Abraham, the people grewe and multiplied in Egypt:

  • Ps 105:23-24
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    68%

    23Israel also came into Egypt: & Iacob was a straunger in the lande of Cham.

    24And he encreased his people exceedinglye: and made them stronger then their enemies.

  • Deut 10:19
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    19Loue ye therfore the straunger also: for ye were straungers your selues in the lande of Egypt.

  • Num 13:18
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    18And see the lande what maner thing it is, and the people that dwelleth therin, whether they be strong or weake, eyther fewe or many:

  • Ps 78:55
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    55He dyd cast out the heathen also before them: he caused their land to be deuided among the for an heritage, & made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tentes.

  • Neh 9:23
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    23And their children multipliedst thou as the starres of heauen, and broughtest them into the lande whereof thou haddest spoken to their fathers, that they should go into it, and haue it in possession.

  • Ps 107:39
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    39But when they do fall from God, they are diminished & brought low: through oppression, calamitie, & griefe of minde.

  • Gen 37:1
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    1Iacob dwelt in the land wherin his father was long a straunger, euen in ye lande of Chanaan.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
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    15For we be but straungers before thee, and soiourners, as were al our fathers: Our dayes on the earth also are but as a shadowe, and there is none abiding.

  • Exod 1:7
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    7And the children of Israel were fruitfull, encreased, multiplied, & waxed exceedyng myghtie, and the lande was full of them.

  • Gen 47:27
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    27And Israel dwelt in Egypt, euen in they countrey of Gosen, and they had their possessions therin, and grewe and multiplied exceedyngly.

  • Deut 10:22
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    22Thy fathers went downe into Egypt with threscore and ten persons: and nowe the Lorde thy God hath made thee & multiplied thee as the starres of heauen.

  • Deut 28:62
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    62And ye shalbe lefte fewe in number, where before ye were as the starres of heauen in multitude: because thou wouldest not hearken vnto the voyce of the Lorde thy God.

  • Exod 32:13
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    13Remember Abraham, Isahac, and Israel thy seruauntes, to whom thou swarest by thy owne selfe, and saydest vnto them: I wyll multiplie your seede as the starres of heauen, and all this lande that I haue spoken of wyll I geue vnto your seede, and they shall inherite it for euer.

  • Ps 105:44
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    44And he gaue them the landes of the Heathen, and they toke to inheritaunce the labours of the people.

  • Gen 36:7
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    7For theyr ryches was much, and they coulde not dwell together: and the land wherein they were straungers coulde not receaue them, because of theyr possessions.

  • Deut 32:8
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    8When the most hyest deuided to the nations their inheritaunce, and when he seperated the sonnes of Adam, he put the borders of the nations accordyng to the number of the children of Israel:

  • Exod 23:30
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    30By litle and litle I wyll dryue them out before thee, vntyl thou be increased, and inherite the lande.

  • 1 Sam 12:8
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    8After yt Iacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cryed vnto the Lord, the Lord sent Moyses & Aaron, which brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwel in this place.

  • Gen 13:6
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    6And the lande was not able to beare them, that they might dwell together: for theyr substaunce was great, so that they coulde not dwell together.

  • Num 32:16
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    16And they went neare hym, and sayde: We wyll builde sheepe foldes here for our sheepe & for our cattell, and walled cities for our children:

  • Ps 105:17
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    17But he had sent a man before them: euen Ioseph, who was solde to be a bonde seruaunt.

  • Deut 7:7
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    7The Lorde dyd not set his loue vpon you, nor chose you because ye were mo in number then any people (for ye were the fewest of all people)

  • Exod 1:10
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    10Come on, let vs deale wyttyly with the, lest they multiplie, & lest it come to passe, that if there be any warre, they ioyne them selues vnto our enemies, & fight agaynst vs, & so get them vp out of ye land.

  • Gen 12:6
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    6Abram passed through the lande, vnto the place of Sichem, vnto the plaine of Moreh. And the Chanaanite was then in the lande.

  • Deut 1:10
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    10For the Lorde your God hath multiplied you: so that you be this day as the starres of heauen in number.

  • Deut 29:16
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    16For ye knowe howe we haue dwelt in the lande of Egypt, and howe we came through the myddes of the nations which ye passed by:

  • Ps 135:12
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    12And he gaue their lande for an inheritaunce: euen for an heritaunce to Israel his people.

  • Heb 11:13
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    13These all dyed according to fayth, not hauing receaued the promises, but seing them a farre of, and beleuyng, and salutyng, and confessyng that they were straungers and pilgrimes on the earth.

  • Gen 42:12
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    12And he sayde vnto them agayne: nay but euen to see where the lande is weake, is your comming.

  • Num 20:15
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    15Our fathers went downe into Egypt, & we haue dwelt in Egypt a long tyme: and the Egyptians vexed vs and our fathers.

  • Ezek 33:24
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    24Thou sonne of man, these that dwell in the wasted lande of Israel talke and say: Abraham was but one man, and he had the lande in possession: nowe are we many, and the lande is geuen vs to possesse also.

  • Isa 34:17
    66%

    17He hath cast the lot for them, and to those beastes hath his hande deuided it by the line: therfore those shall possesse it for euer, from generation to generation shall they dwell therin.

  • Lam 5:2
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    2Our inheritaunce is turned to the straungers, and our houses to the aliaunts.