Acts 7:45

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Our ancestors received possession of it and brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors, until the time of David.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἣν καὶ εἰσήγαγον διαδεξάμενοι οἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν μετὰ Ἰησοῦ ἐν τῇ κατασχέσει τῶν Ἐθνῶν, ὧν ἐξῶσεν ὁ Θεὸς ἀπὸ προσώπου τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν, ἕως τῶν ἡμερῶν Δαυίδ·

Transliteration

Which also eisēgagon having-diadexamenoi the pateres of-us with Iēsou in the kataschései of-the Ethnōn, whom exōsen the Theos from prosōpou of-the paterōn of-us, until the hēmerōn of-Dauid;

Grammar Details

• *eisēgagon*: aorist active indicative, 3rd plural - brought in
• *diadexamenoi*: aorist middle participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having received in succession
• *pateres*: nominative, masculine, plural - fathers/ancestors
• *Iēsou*: genitive, masculine, singular - Joshua (not Jesus in this context)
• *kataschései*: dative, feminine, singular - taking possession/occupation
• *Ethnōn*: genitive, neuter, plural - nations/gentiles
• *exōsen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd singular - drove out/expelled
• *Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - God
• *prosōpou*: genitive, neuter, singular - face/presence
• *paterōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - fathers/ancestors
• *hēmerōn*: genitive, feminine, plural - days
• *Dauid*: genitive, masculine, singular - David

Word Meanings

• *eisēgagon*: brought in/led in/introduced
• *diadexamenoi*: having received in succession/having taken over from
• *kataschései*: taking possession/occupation/conquest
• *Ethnōn*: nations/gentiles/peoples
• *exōsen*: drove out/expelled/thrust out
• *prosōpou*: face/presence/person

Referenced Verses

• Ps 44:2 : 2 You, by your power, defeated nations and settled our fathers on their land; you crushed the people living there and enabled our ancestors to occupy it.
• Acts 13:19 : 19 After he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave his people their land as an inheritance.
• Josh 18:1 : 1 The Tribes Meet at Shiloh The entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh and there they set up the tent of meeting. Though they had subdued the land,
• Josh 23:9 : 9 “The LORD drove out from before you great and mighty nations; no one has been able to resist you to this very day.
• Josh 24:18 : 18 The LORD drove out from before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. So we too will worship the LORD, for he is our God!”
• Judg 18:31 : 31 They worshiped Micah’s carved image the whole time God’s authorized shrine was in Shiloh.
• 1 Sam 4:4 : 4 So the army sent to Shiloh, and they took from there the ark of the covenant of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, who sits between the cherubim. Now the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
• 2 Sam 6:1-9 : 1 David Brings the Ark to Jerusalem David again assembled all the best men in Israel, thirty thousand in number. 2 David and all the men who were with him traveled to Baalah in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called by the name of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, who sits enthroned between the cherubim that are on it. 3 They loaded the ark of God on a new cart and carried it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart. 4 They brought it with the ark of God from the house of Abinadab on the hill. Ahio was walking in front of the ark, 5 while David and all Israel were energetically celebrating before the LORD, singing and playing various stringed instruments, tambourines, rattles, and cymbals. 6 When they arrived at the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out and grabbed hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled. 7 The LORD was so furious with Uzzah, he killed him on the spot for his negligence. He died right there beside the ark of God. 8 David was angry because the LORD attacked Uzzah; so he called that place Perez Uzzah, which remains its name to this very day. 9 David was afraid of the LORD that day and said,“How will the ark of the LORD ever come to me?” 10 So David was no longer willing to bring the ark of the LORD to be with him in the City of David. David left it in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. 11 The ark of the LORD remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months. The LORD blessed Obed-Edom and all his family. 12 King David was told,“The LORD has blessed the family of Obed-Edom and everything he owns because of the ark of God.” So David went and joyfully brought the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David. 13 Those who carried the ark of the LORD took six steps and then David sacrificed an ox and a fatling calf. 14 Now David, wearing a linen ephod, was dancing with all his strength before the LORD. 15 David and all Israel were bringing up the ark of the LORD, shouting and blowing trumpets. 16 As the ark of the LORD entered the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked out the window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, she despised him. 17 They brought the ark of the LORD and put it in its place in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before the LORD. 18 When David finished offering the burnt sacrifices and peace offerings, he pronounced a blessing over the people in the name of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. 19 He then handed out to each member of the entire assembly of Israel, both men and women, a portion of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. Then all the people went home. 20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him. She said,“How the king of Israel has distinguished himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool might do!” 21 David replied to Michal,“It was before the LORD! I was celebrating before the LORD, who chose me over your father and his entire family and appointed me as leader over the LORD’s people Israel. 22 I am willing to shame and humiliate myself even more than this! But with the slave girls whom you mentioned let me be distinguished!” 23 Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, had no children to the day of her death.
• 1 Kgs 8:4 : 4 The priests and Levites carried the ark of the LORD, the tent of meeting, and all the holy items in the tent.
• 1 Chr 15:1-9 : 1 David Brings the Ark to Jerusalem David constructed buildings in the City of David; he then prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it. 2 Then David said,“Only the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the LORD chose them to carry the ark of the LORD and to serve before him perpetually.” 3 David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring the ark of the LORD up to the place he had prepared for it. 4 David gathered together the descendants of Aaron and the Levites: 5 From the descendants of Kohath: Uriel the leader and 120 of his relatives. 6 From the descendants of Merari: Asaiah the leader and 220 of his relatives. 7 From the descendants of Gershom: Joel the leader and 130 of his relatives. 8 From the descendants of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the leader and 200 of his relatives. 9 From the descendants of Hebron: Eliel the leader and 80 of his relatives. 10 From the descendants of Uzziel: Amminadab the leader and 112 of his relatives. 11 David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar, along with the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab. 12 He told them:“You are the leaders of the Levites’ families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves and bring the ark of the LORD God of Israel up to the place I have prepared for it. 13 The first time you did not carry it; that is why the LORD God attacked us, because we did not ask him about the proper way to carry it.” 14 The priests and Levites consecrated themselves so they could bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel. 15 The descendants of Levi carried the ark of God on their shoulders with poles, just as Moses had commanded in keeping with the LORD’s instruction. 16 David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint some of their relatives as musicians; they were to play various instruments, including stringed instruments and cymbals, and to sing loudly and joyfully. 17 So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; one of his relatives, Asaph son of Berechiah; one of the descendants of Merari, Ethan son of Kushaiah;
• 1 Chr 16:39 : 39 Zadok the priest and his fellow priests served before the LORD’s tabernacle at the worship center in Gibeon,
• 1 Chr 21:29 : 29 Now the LORD’s tabernacle(which Moses had made in the wilderness) and the altar for burnt sacrifices were at that time at the worship center in Gibeon.
• Neh 9:24 : 24 Their descendants entered and possessed the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites who were the inhabitants of the land. You delivered them into their hand, together with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with as they pleased.
• Heb 4:8 : 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken afterward about another day.
• Ps 78:55 : 55 He drove the nations out from before them; he assigned them their tribal allotments and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.
• Deut 32:49 : 49 “Go up to this Abarim hill country, to Mount Nebo(which is in the land of Moab opposite Jericho) and look at the land of Canaan that I am giving to the Israelites as a possession.
• Josh 3:6-7 : 6 Joshua told the priests,“Pick up the ark of the covenant and pass on ahead of the people.” So they picked up the ark of the covenant and went ahead of the people. 7 The LORD told Joshua,“This very day I will begin to honor you before all Israel so they will know that I am with you just as I was with Moses.
• Josh 3:11-17 : 11 Look! The ark of the covenant of the Lord of the whole earth is ready to enter the Jordan ahead of you. 12 Now select for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one per tribe. 13 When the feet of the priests carrying the ark of the LORD, the Lord of the whole earth, touch the water of the Jordan, the water coming downstream toward you will stop flowing and pile up.” 14 So when the people left their tents to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them. 15 When the ones carrying the ark reached the Jordan and the feet of the priests carrying the ark touched the surface of the water–(the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest time)– 16 the water coming downstream toward them stopped flowing. It piled up far upstream at Adam(the city near Zarethan); there was no water at all flowing to the sea of the rift valley(the Salt Sea). The people crossed the river opposite Jericho. 17 The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firmly on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan. All Israel crossed over on dry ground until the entire nation was on the other side.