Psalms 105:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

When they were but a few men in number; yes, very few, and strangers in it.

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  • Gen 34:30 : 30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have troubled me by making me despised among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and I, being few in number, they will gather together against me and slay me, and I shall be destroyed, I and my household.
  • Deut 7:7 : 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people:
  • Heb 11:9 : 9 By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
  • Gen 23:4 : 4 I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me a possession of a burial place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
  • Deut 26:5 : 5 And you shall speak and say before the LORD your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
  • Isa 51:2 : 2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
  • Ezek 33:24-33 : 24 Son of man, those who inhabit the ruins in the land of Israel are speaking, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us as a possession. 25 Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land? 26 You rely on your sword, you commit abominations, and you defile every one his neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land? 27 Say thus to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; As I live, surely those who are in the ruins shall fall by the sword, and he who is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence. 28 For I will make the land most desolate, and the pride of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that no one shall pass through. 29 Then they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed. 30 Also, son of man, the children of your people are talking against you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that comes forth from the LORD. 31 And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness. 32 And indeed, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear your words, but they do not do them. 33 And when this comes to pass—and indeed it will come—then they shall know that a prophet has been among them.
  • Acts 7:5 : 5 And He gave him no inheritance in it, not even enough to set his foot on; yet he promised that He would give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants after him, when as yet he had no child.
  • Gen 17:8 : 8 And I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
  • Heb 11:12 : 12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the seashore innumerable.

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

    18 Saying, 'To you will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;'

    19 When you were few in number, even very few, and strangers in it.

    20 And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;

  • Ps 105:13
    79%

    13 When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;

  • Ps 105:11
    75%

    11 Saying, To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:

  • Exod 6:4
    71%

    4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, where they were strangers.

  • Acts 7:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5 And He gave him no inheritance in it, not even enough to set his foot on; yet he promised that He would give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants after him, when as yet he had no child.

    6 And God spoke in this way, that his descendants would dwell in a strange land, and that they would bring them into bondage, and treat them poorly for four hundred years.

  • Deut 4:27
    71%

    27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the heathen, where the LORD shall lead you.

  • Ps 107:4
    70%

    4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to live in.

  • Job 15:19
    70%

    19 To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

  • Gen 15:13
    69%

    13 And He said to Abram, Know certainly that your offspring shall be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

  • Ps 114:1
    69%

    1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language;

  • Deut 26:5
    69%

    5 And you shall speak and say before the LORD your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:

  • Heb 11:9
    68%

    9 By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

  • Acts 7:17
    68%

    17 But when the time of the promise drew near, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

  • Ps 105:23-24
    2 verses
    68%

    23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

    24 And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.

  • Deut 10:19
    68%

    19 Therefore love the stranger: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

  • Num 13:18
    68%

    18 See the land, how it is; and the people who dwell in it, whether they are strong or weak, few or many;

  • Ps 78:55
    68%

    55 He cast out the nations also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

  • Neh 9:23
    68%

    23 You also multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and brought them into the land which You had promised to their forefathers they would enter and possess.

  • Ps 107:39
    68%

    39 Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

  • Gen 37:1
    68%

    1 And Jacob lived in the land where his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    68%

    15 For we are strangers before You, and sojourners, as were all our fathers; our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

  • Exod 1:7
    68%

    7 And the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and became exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

  • Gen 47:27
    68%

    27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions there, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

  • Deut 10:22
    67%

    22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude.

  • Deut 28:62
    67%

    62 And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

  • Exod 32:13
    67%

    13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.'"

  • Ps 105:44
    67%

    44 And gave them the lands of the nations: and they inherited the labor of the people;

  • Gen 36:7
    67%

    7 For their riches were too great for them to live together; and the land where they were strangers could not support them because of their livestock.

  • Deut 32:8
    67%

    8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the boundaries of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

  • Exod 23:30
    67%

    30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land.

  • 1 Sam 12:8
    67%

    8 When Jacob came into Egypt, and your fathers cried to the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.

  • Gen 13:6
    67%

    6 And the land was not able to support them, that they might dwell together: for their possessions were great, so that they could not dwell together.

  • Num 32:16
    67%

    16 And they came near to him and said, We will build sheep pens here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones,

  • Ps 105:17
    67%

    17 He sent a man before them, Joseph, who was sold for a servant:

  • Deut 7:7
    67%

    7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people:

  • Exod 1:10
    67%

    10 Come, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it happen, that when any war breaks out, they join also with our enemies, and fight against us, and so go up out of the land.

  • Gen 12:6
    67%

    6 And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

  • Deut 1:10
    67%

    10 The LORD your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are today as the stars of heaven in multitude.

  • Deut 29:16
    66%

    16 (For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which you passed by;

  • Ps 135:12
    66%

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

  • Heb 11:13
    66%

    13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, were assured of them, embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

  • Gen 42:12
    66%

    12 And he said to them, No, but to see the nakedness of the land you have come.

  • Num 20:15
    66%

    15 how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.

  • Ezek 33:24
    66%

    24 Son of man, those who inhabit the ruins in the land of Israel are speaking, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us as a possession.

  • Isa 34:17
    66%

    17 And He has cast the lot for them, and His hand has divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it forever, from generation to generation they shall dwell therein.

  • Lam 5:2
    66%

    2 Our inheritance is given to strangers, our houses to foreigners.