Psalms 78:55

He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

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He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

In Context

54And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

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Cross References

Numbers 33:54And all of you shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more all of you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer all of you shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falls; according to the tribes of your fathers all of you shall inherit.

Joshua 6:1Now Jericho was strictly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.

Joshua 19:51These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country.

Joshua 23:4Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.

Psalms 44:2How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out.

Psalms 105:44And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;

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 →

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