Deuteronomy 32:9

For YHWH’s portion [is] His people, || Jacob [is] the line of His inheritance.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

For the LORD’S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

In Context

8In the Most High causing nations to inherit, || In His separating sons of Adam—He sets up the borders of the peoples || By the number of the sons of God [[ or sons of Israel]].

10He finds him in a land—a desert, || And in a void—a howling wilderness, || He turns him around—He causes him to understand—He keeps him as the apple of His eye.

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Cross References

Exodus 15:16Terror and dread fall on them; By the greatness of Your arm || They are still as a stone, || Until Your people pass over, O YHWH; Until the people pass over || Whom You have purchased.

Deuteronomy 9:29And they [are] Your people and Your inheritance, whom You have brought out by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm!”

Joshua 24:17for our God YHWH [is] He who is bringing us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants, and who has done these great signs before our eyes, and keeps us in all the way in which we have gone, and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed;

2 Samuel 20:19I [am] of the peaceable, faithful ones of Israel; you are seeking to destroy a city and mother in Israel; why do you swallow up the inheritance of YHWH?”

1 Kings 8:53for You have separated them to Yourself for an inheritance, out of all the peoples of the earth, as You spoke by the hand of Your servant Moses, in Your bringing out our fathers from Egypt, O Lord YHWH.”

Psalms 78:71He has brought him in from behind suckling ones, || To rule over Jacob His people, || And over 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 →

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