Psalms 78:55
He drove out the nations before them, and allotted their land for possession, and their tents for Israel to live in.
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54To his holy realm he brought them, to the mountain his right hand had purchased.
56Yet they tempted and angered the Most High God, they did not observe his decrees.
Cross References
Joshua 6:1Now Jericho had shut its gates against the Israelites. No one left the town, and no one entered it.
Joshua 19:51Such were the inheritances which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the tribes of Israel distributed by lot at Shilo before the Lord at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. They finished dividing up the country.
Joshua 23:4I have allotted you to the remaining nations, after those which I have wiped out, and you will hold the land of these nations from the Jordan to the Mediterranean in the west.
Psalms 44:2uprooting and crushing the nations, then planting and settling them. For it wasn’t their own sword that won them the land,
Psalms 105:44And he gave them the lands of the nations, the fruit of their toil for possession,
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 →