1 Chronicles 16:19

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When they were few in number, just a very few, and foreign residents within it,

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 34:30 : 30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi,“You have brought ruin on me by making me a foul odor among the inhabitants of the land– among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number; they will join forces against me and attack me, and both I and my family will be destroyed!”
  • Deut 7:7 : 7 The Basis of Israel’s Election It is not because you were more numerous than all the other peoples that the LORD favored and chose you– for in fact you were the least numerous of all peoples.
  • Acts 7:5 : 5 He did not give any of it to him for an inheritance, not even a foot of ground, yet God promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, even though Abraham as yet had no child.
  • Heb 11:13 : 13 These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.

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    18saying,“To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”

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    27Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you among the nations where the LORD will drive you.

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    19So you must love the resident foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

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