Psalms 78:55

Driving out nations before them, marking out the line of their heritage, and giving the people of Israel their tents for a resting-place.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

In Context

54And he was their guide to his holy land, even to the mountain, which his right hand had made his;

56But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;

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Cross References

Numbers 33:54And you will take up your heritage in the land by the decision of the Lord, to every family its part; the greater the family the greater its heritage, and the smaller the family the smaller will be its heritage; wherever the decision of the Lord gives to any man his part, that will be his; distribution will be made to you by your fathers' tribes.

Joshua 6:1(Now Jericho was all shut up because of the children of Israel: there was no going out or coming in.)

Joshua 19:51These are the heritages which Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun, and the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel gave out at Shiloh, by the decision of the Lord, at the door of the Tent of meeting. So the distribution of the land was complete.

Joshua 23:4Now I have given to you, as the heritage of your tribes, all these nations which are still in the land, together with those cut off by me, from Jordan as far as the Great Sea on the west.

Psalms 44:2\44:1\It has come to our ears, O God, our fathers have given us the story, of the works which you did in their days, in the old times,

Psalms 105:44And gave them the lands of the nations; and they took the work of the peoples for a heritage;

Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:41-72

Judgments and Mercies; Wonders Wrought for Israel; Renewed Mercies 40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! 41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. 42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. 43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: 44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. 45 He sent divers sorts of flies among… Read the whole commentary →

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