Psalms 105:12
When they were few in number, just a very few, and resident foreigners within it,
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- 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.
- Heb 11:9 : 9 By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.
- Gen 23:4 : 4 “I am a foreign resident, a temporary settler, among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead.”
- Deut 26:5 : 5 Then you must affirm before the LORD your God,“A wandering Aramean was my ancestor, and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number, but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.
- Isa 51:2 : 2 Look at Abraham, your father, and Sarah, who gave you birth. When I summoned him, he was a lone individual, but I blessed him and gave him numerous descendants.
- Ezek 33:24-33 : 24 “Son of man, the ones living in these ruins in the land of Israel are saying,‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land, but we are many; surely the land has been given to us for a possession.’ 25 Therefore say to them,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, pray to your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess the land? 26 You rely on your swords and commit abominable deeds; each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Will you possess the land?’ 27 “This is what you must say to them,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: As surely as I live, those living in the ruins will die by the sword, those in the open field I will give to the wild beasts for food, and those who are in the strongholds and caves will die of disease. 28 I will turn the land into a desolate ruin; her confident pride will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will be so desolate no one will pass through them. 29 Then they will know that I am the LORD when I turn the land into a desolate ruin because of all the abominable deeds they have committed.’ 30 “But as for you, son of man, your people(who are talking about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses) say to one another,‘Come hear the word that comes from the LORD.’ 31 They come to you in crowds, and they sit in front of you as my people. They hear your words, but do not obey them. For they talk lustfully, and their heart is set on their own advantage. 32 Realize that to them you are like a sensual song, a beautiful voice and skilled musician. They hear your words, but they do not obey them. 33 When all this comes true– and it certainly will– then they will know that a prophet was among them.”
- 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.
- Gen 17:8 : 8 I will give the whole land of Canaan– the land where you are now residing– to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God.”
- Heb 11:12 : 12 So in fact children were fathered by one man– and this one as good as dead– like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand on the seashore.
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- 1 Chr 16:18-203 verses90%
18 saying,“To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”
19 When they were few in number, just a very few, and foreign residents within it,
20 they wandered from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another.
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13 they wandered from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another.
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11 saying,“To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”
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4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they were living as resident foreigners.
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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.
6 But God spoke as follows:‘Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.
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27 Then 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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4 They wandered through the wilderness, in a wasteland; they found no road to a city in which to live.
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19 to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.
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13 Then the LORD said to Abram,“Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
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1 When Israel left Egypt, when the family of Jacob left a foreign nation behind,
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5 Then you must affirm before the LORD your God,“A wandering Aramean was my ancestor, and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number, but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.
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9 By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.
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17 “But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, the people increased greatly in number in Egypt,
- Ps 105:23-242 verses68%
23 Israel moved to Egypt; Jacob lived for a time in the land of Ham.
24 The LORD made his people very fruitful, and made them more numerous than their enemies.
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19 So you must love the resident foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
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18 and see what the land is like, and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, few or many,
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55 He drove the nations out from before them; he assigned them their tribal allotments and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.
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23 You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.
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39 As for their enemies, they decreased in number and were beaten down, because of painful distress and suffering.
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1 Joseph’s Dreams But Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, in the land of Canaan.
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15 For we are resident foreigners and temporary settlers in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.
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7 The Israelites, however, were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, so that the land was filled with them.
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27 Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they owned land there. They were fruitful and increased rapidly in number.
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22 When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.
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62 There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky, because you will have disobeyed the LORD your God.
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13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them,‘I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about I will give to your descendants, and they will inherit it forever.’”
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44 He handed the territory of nations over to them, and they took possession of what other peoples had produced,
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7 because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled was not able to support them because of their livestock.
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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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30 Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.
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8 When Jacob entered Egypt, your ancestors cried out to the LORD. The LORD sent Moses and Aaron, and they led your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place.
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6 But the land could not support them while they were living side by side. Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live alongside one another.
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16 The Offer of the Reubenites and Gadites Then they came very close to him and said,“We will build sheep folds here for our flocks and cities for our families,
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17 He sent a man ahead of them– Joseph was sold as a servant.
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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.
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10 Come, let’s deal wisely with them. Otherwise they will continue to multiply, and if a war breaks out, they will ally themselves with our enemies and fight against us and leave the country.”
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6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem.(At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)
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10 The LORD your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.
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16 The Results of Disobedience“(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled.
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12 He gave their land as an inheritance, as an inheritance to Israel his people.
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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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12 “No,” he insisted,“but you have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”
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15 how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.
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24 “Son of man, the ones living in these ruins in the land of Israel are saying,‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land, but we are many; surely the land has been given to us for a possession.’
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17 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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2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.