1 Chronicles 16:20

World English Bible (2000)

They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 12:10 : 10 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.
  • Gen 20:1 : 1 Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.
  • Gen 46:3 : 3 He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.
  • Gen 46:6 : 6 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt--Jacob, and all his seed with him,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 105:12-14
    3 verses
    92%

    12 when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

    13 They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

    14 He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,

  • 19 when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.

  • 21 He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,

  • 2 Chr 15:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5 In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands.

    6 They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity.

  • 16 He made many to stumble, yes, they fell one on another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.

  • Num 20:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17 "Please let us pass through your land: we will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go along the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border."

    18 Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you."

  • 1 When Israel went forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language;

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    16 but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;

    17 then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, 'Please let me pass through your land;' but the king of Edom didn't listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab; but he would not: and Israel stayed in Kadesh.

  • 4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

  • 15 Wherever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them: and they were very distressed.

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    19 and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

    20 When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people of Yahweh, and are gone forth out of his land.

  • 4 For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together.

  • 19 to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):

  • 16 who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

  • 21 They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry; and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,

  • 15 Depart! they cried to them, Unclean! depart, depart, don't touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more live [here].

  • 16 (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;

  • 21 As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.

  • 15 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:

  • 14 So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near to Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.

  • 10 Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

  • 20 He has not done this for just any nation. They don't know his ordinances. Praise Yah!

  • Num 20:20-21
    2 verses
    69%

    20 He said, "You shall not pass through." Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.

    21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.

  • 44 He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,

  • 18 For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

  • Ps 107:39-40
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    68%

    39 Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

    40 He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

  • 16 Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

  • 22 "Let me pass through your land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed your border."

  • 40 They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

  • 14 Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and said to him, "What did these men say? From where did they come to you?" Hezekiah said, "They are come from a far country, even from Babylon."

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    10 Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and didn't destroy them;

    11 behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.

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    15 But the men were very good to us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields.

    16 They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

  • 20 Whereas you came but yesterday, should I this day make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you."

  • 40 So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him. All the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half the people of Israel.

  • 14 When you are come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, "I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me;"

  • 8 So we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

  • 16 Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;

  • 31 and to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to stay.

  • 24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

  • 29 The fear of God was on all the kingdoms of the countries, when they heard that Yahweh fought against the enemies of Israel.