Isaiah 34:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He assigns them their allotment; he measures out their assigned place. They will live there permanently; they will settle in it through successive generations.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 34:10 : 10 Night and day it will burn; its smoke will ascend continually. Generation after generation it will be a wasteland and no one will ever pass through it again.
  • 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.
  • Isa 13:20-22 : 20 No one will live there again; no one will ever reside there again. No bedouin will camp there, no shepherds will rest their flocks there. 21 Wild animals will rest there, the ruined houses will be full of hyenas. Ostriches will live there, wild goats will skip among the ruins. 22 Wild dogs will yip in her ruined fortresses, jackals will yelp in the once-splendid palaces. Her time is almost up, her days will not be prolonged.
  • Isa 17:14 : 14 In the evening there is sudden terror; by morning they vanish. This is the fate of those who try to plunder us, the destiny of those who try to loot us!
  • Josh 18:8 : 8 When the men started out, Joshua told those going to map out the land,“Go, walk through the land, map it out, and return to me. Then I will draw lots for you before the LORD here in Shiloh.”
  • Jer 13:25 : 25 This is your fate, the destiny to which I have appointed you, because you have forgotten me and have trusted in false gods.
  • Acts 13:19 : 19 After he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave his people their land as an inheritance.
  • 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,

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    29The godly will possess the land and will dwell in it permanently.

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    54He brought them to the border of his holy land, to this mountainous land which his right hand acquired.

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  • Deut 32:8-9
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    8When 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.

    9For the LORD’s allotment is his people, Jacob is his special possession.

  • Ezek 48:29
    78%

    29This is the land which you will allot to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Num 33:53-54
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    78%

    53You must dispossess the inhabitants of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.

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  • Num 26:55-56
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    55The land must be divided by lot; and they will inherit in accordance with the names of their ancestral tribes.

    56Their inheritance must be apportioned by lot among the larger and smaller groups.”

  • Ezek 47:21-23
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    77%

    21“This is how you will divide this land for yourselves among the tribes of Israel.

    22You must allot it as an inheritance among yourselves and for the resident foreigners who live among you, who have fathered sons among you. You must treat them as native-born among the people of Israel; they will be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

    23In whatever tribe the resident foreigner lives, there you will give him his inheritance,” declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Ezek 37:25-26
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    25They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; they will live in it– they and their children and their grandchildren forever. David my servant will be prince over them forever.

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    4See, I have parceled out to your tribes these remaining nations, from the Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea in the west, including all the nations I defeated.

  • Josh 18:5-6
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    5Divide it into seven regions. Judah will stay in its territory in the south, and the family of Joseph in its territory in the north.

    6But as for you, map out the land into seven regions and bring it to me. I will draw lots for you here before the LORD our God.

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    14You must divide it equally just as I vowed to give it to your forefathers; this land will be assigned as your inheritance.

  • Ps 105:11
    76%

    11saying,“To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”

  • Deut 18:2
    75%

    2They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the LORD alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.

  • Acts 13:19
    75%

    19After he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave his people their land as an inheritance.

  • Num 34:29
    75%

    29These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to divide up the inheritance among the Israelites in the land of Canaan.

  • Ps 105:44
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    44He handed the territory of nations over to them, and they took possession of what other peoples had produced,

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    12He gave their land as an inheritance, as an inheritance to Israel his people.

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    5LORD, you give me stability and prosperity; you make my future secure.

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  • 1 Chr 16:17-18
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    17He gave it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as a lasting promise,

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    22Surely those favored by the LORD will possess the land, but those rejected by him will be wiped out.

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    74%

    28“‘This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance, and you must give them no property in Israel; I am their property.

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    74%

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    74%

    21and gave their land as an inheritance, for his loyal love endures,

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    74%

    35For God will deliver Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah, and his people will again live in them and possess Zion.

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    74%

    17You will bring them in and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, in the place you made for your residence, O LORD, the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hands have established.

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    74%

    34Moreover, the open field areas of their cities must not be sold, because that is their perpetual possession.

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    74%

    8He must eat the same share they do, despite any profits he may gain from the sale of his family’s inheritance.

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    74%

    51These are the land assignments which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the Israelite tribal leaders made by drawing lots in Shiloh before the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting. So they finished dividing up the land.

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    2 verses
    73%

    13Certainly the LORD has chosen Zion; he decided to make it his home.

    14He said,“This will be my resting place forever; I will live here, for I have chosen it.

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    2The land assignments to the nine and a half tribes were made by drawing lots, as the LORD had instructed Moses.

  • Num 34:18
    73%

    18You must take one leader from every tribe to assist in allocating the land as an inheritance.

  • Josh 21:43
    73%

    43So the LORD gave Israel all the land he had solemnly promised to their ancestors, and they conquered it and lived in it.

  • Mic 2:5
    73%

    5Therefore no one will assign you land in the LORD’s community.

  • Deut 1:39
    73%

    39Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.

  • Prov 16:33
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    33The dice are thrown into the lap, but their every decision is from the LORD.

  • Isa 65:9
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    9I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and from Judah people to take possession of my mountains. My chosen ones will take possession of the land; my servants will live there.

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    7In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage.