Deuteronomy 32:9
And his people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, 1 Israel was the line of his inheritance. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 15:16Let trembling and fear fall upon them; 1 By the greatness of thine arm, let them become as stone; 1 Till thy people pass over, O Lord, 1 Till this thy people pass over, whom thou hast purchased. 1
Deuteronomy 9:29And these are thy people and thy portion, whom thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt with thy great strength, and with thy mighty hand, and with thy high arm.
Joshua 24:17The Lord our God, he is God; he brought up us and our fathers from Egypt, and kept us in all the way wherein we walked, and among all the nations through whom we passed.
2 Samuel 20:19I am a peaceable one of the strong ones in Israel; but thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother-city in Israel: why dost thou seek to ruin the inheritance of the Lord?
1 Kings 8:53a Then spoke Solomon concerning the house, when he had finished building it— 1 He manifested the sun in the heaven: 1 The Lord said he would dwell in darkness: 1 Build thou my house, a beautiful house 1 For thyself to dwell in anew. Behold, is not this written in the book of the song?
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 →