Deuteronomy 32:9
For LORD's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For the LORD’S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 15:16Terror and dread falls upon them. By the greatness of thine arm they are as still as a stone, till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over whom thou have purchased.
Deuteronomy 9:29Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou brought out by thy great power and by thine outstretched arm.
Joshua 24:17For LORD our God, he it is who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peopl
2 Samuel 20:19I am of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. Thou seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will thou swallow up the inheritance of LORD?
1 Kings 8:53For thou separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spoke by Moses thy servant when thou brought our fathers out of Egypt, O lord LORD.
Psalms 78:71He brought him from following the ewes that have their young, to be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 32:8-15
7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. 8 When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. 9 For the Lord 's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept… Read the whole commentary →