Deuteronomy 32:8
When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of man: he set the bounds of the tribes according to the number of the sons of Israel.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
9For the portion of the Lord is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Cross References
Genesis 10:15And Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, and Heth,
Genesis 11:8So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.
Numbers 24:16Thus saith he who heareth the sayings of God, and knoweth the knowledge of the Most High, who seeth the vision of the Almighty, falling down, with unvailed eyes:
Job 15:19Unto whom alone the earth was given, and into whose midst no stranger ever entered.
Psalms 50:14Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay unto the Most High thy vows;
Psalms 91:1He who sitteth under the secret protection of the Most High, shall rest under the shadow of the Almighty.
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 →