Deuteronomy 32:8
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the heavenly assembly.
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- Acts 17:26 : 26 From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,
- Gen 10:15 : 15 Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth,
- Gen 10:25 : 25 Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.
- Gen 11:8-9 : 8 So the LORD scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why its name was called Babel– because there the LORD confused the language of the entire world, and from there the LORD scattered them across the face of the entire earth.
- Gen 15:18-21 : 18 That day the LORD made a covenant with Abram:“To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River– 19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
- Num 24:16 : 16 the oracle of the one who hears the words of God, and who knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees a vision from the Almighty, although falling flat on the ground with eyes open:
- Ps 7:17 : 17 I will thank the LORD for his justice; I will sing praises to the LORD Most High!
- Ps 50:14 : 14 Present to God a thank-offering! Repay your vows to the Most High!
- Ps 82:6 : 6 I thought,‘You are gods; all of you are sons of the Most High.’
- Ps 91:1 : 1 As for you, the one who lives in the shelter of the Most High, and resides in the protective shadow of the Sovereign One–
- Ps 92:8 : 8 But you, O LORD, reign forever!
- Ps 115:16 : 16 The heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth he has given to mankind.
- Isa 14:14 : 14 I will climb up to the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High!”
- Dan 4:17 : 17 This announcement is by the decree of the sentinels; this decision is by the pronouncement of the holy ones, so that those who are alive may understand that the Most High has authority over human kingdoms, and he bestows them on whomever he wishes. He establishes over them even the lowliest of human beings.’
- Dan 5:18 : 18 As for you, O king, the most high God bestowed on your father Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, greatness, honor, and majesty.
- Acts 7:48 : 48 Yet the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands, as the prophet says,
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