Deuteronomy 32:9
For Jehovah's portion is his people; Jacob the lot of his inheritance.
Darby Translation
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 15:16Fear and dread fall upon them; By the greatness of thine arm they are still as a stone; Till thy people pass over, Jehovah, Till the people pass over that thou hast purchased.
Deuteronomy 9:29They are indeed thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out with thy great power and with thy stretched-out arm.
Joshua 24:17for Jehovah our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs before our eyes, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the peoples through whom we passed!
2 Samuel 20:19I am peaceable [and] faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah?
1 Kings 8:53For thou hast separated them from among all peoples of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spokest through Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord Jehovah.
Psalms 78:71From following the suckling-ewes, he brought him to feed 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 →