Deuteronomy 32:9

For Yahweh's portion is his people; 1 Jacob is his apportioned inheritance. 1

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

In Context

8When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance— 1 when he divided all of mankind, 1 and he set the boundaries of the peoples, 1 as he also fixed the number of their gods. 1

10He found him in a desert land, 1 and in the barren and howling wilderness; 1 he shielded him and cared for him, 1 he guarded him as the apple of his eye. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 15:16Terror and dread will fall on them. 1 Because of your arm's power, they will become as still as a stone 1 until your people pass by, Yahweh— 1 until the people you have rescued pass by. 1

Deuteronomy 9:29Yet they are your people and your inheritance, whom you brought out by your great strength and by the display of your power.'

Joshua 24:17for it is Yahweh our God who brought us and our ancestors up from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and who did those great signs in our sight, and who preserved us in all the way that we went, and among all the nations through whom we passed.

2 Samuel 20:19We are a city that is one of the most peaceful and faithful in Israel. You are trying to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why do you want to swallow up the inheritance of Yahweh?”

1 Kings 8:53For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to belong to you and receive your promises, just as you explained by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.”

Psalms 78:71He took him from following the ewes with their young, and he brought him 1 to be shepherd of Jacob, his people, and of Israel, his heritage. 1

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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