Psalms 105:12
When they were but a few men in number, Yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
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- Gen 34:30 : 30 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house."
- Deut 7:7 : 7 Yahweh didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:
- Heb 11:9 : 9 By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
- Gen 23:4 : 4 "I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
- Deut 26:5 : 5 You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
- Isa 51:2 : 2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.
- Ezek 33:24-33 : 24 Son of man, they who inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance. 25 Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land? 26 You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and you defile everyone his neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land? 27 Thus shall you tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword; and him who is in the open field will I give to the animals to be devoured; and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves shall die of the pestilence. 28 I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through. 29 Then shall they know that I am Yahweh, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed. 30 As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk of you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, everyone to his brother, saying, Please come and hear what is the word that comes forth from Yahweh. 31 They come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain. 32 Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don't do them. 33 When this comes to pass, (behold, it comes), then shall they know that a prophet has been among them.
- Acts 7:5 : 5 He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.
- Gen 17:8 : 8 I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."
- Heb 11:12 : 12 Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.
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- 1 Chr 16:18-203 verses90%
18 Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;
19 When you were but a few men in number, Yes, very few, and foreigners in it;
20 They went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people.
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13 They went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people.
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11 Saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;"
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4 I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.
- Acts 7:5-62 verses71%
5 He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.
6 God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
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27 Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh shall lead you away.
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4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.
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19 To whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):
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13 He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
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1 When Israel went forth out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of foreign language;
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5 You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
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9 By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
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17 "But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
- Ps 105:23-242 verses68%
23 Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
24 He increased his people greatly, And made them stronger than their adversaries.
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19 Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
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18 and see the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;
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55 He also drove out the nations before them, Allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
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23 Their children also multiplied you as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you did say to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
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39 Again, they are diminished and bowed down Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
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1 Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Canaan.
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15 For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
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7 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
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27 Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.
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22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.
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62 You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the sky for multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
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13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'"
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44 He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
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7 For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn't bear them because of their cattle.
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8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
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30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.
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8 When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to Yahweh, then Yahweh sent Moses and Aaron, who brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in this place.
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6 The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.
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16 They came near to him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:
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17 He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.
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7 Yahweh didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:
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10 Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land."
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6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.
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10 Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.
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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;
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12 And gave their land for a heritage, A heritage to Israel, his people.
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13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen{TR adds "and being convinced of"} them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
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12 He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land."
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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:
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24 Son of man, they who inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
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17 He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them by line: they shall possess it forever; from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
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2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.