Deuteronomy 32:9
For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
For the LORD’S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
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Exodus 15:16Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of yours arm they shall be as still as a stone; till your people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which you have purchased.
Deuteronomy 9:29Yet they are your people and yours inheritance, which you brought out by your mighty power and by your stretched out arm.
Joshua 24:17For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:
2 Samuel 20:19I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: you seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why will you swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?
1 Kings 8:53For you did separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be yours inheritance, as you spoke by the hand of Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, O LORD God.
Psalms 78:71From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and 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 →