Acts 13:19
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.”
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“And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance, for about four hundred and fifty years:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He did divide by lot to them their land.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Acts 13:19 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 12:5And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
- Genesis 17:8And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”
- Numbers 26:53“The land is to be divided among the tribes as an inheritance, according to the number of names.
- Deuteronomy 7:1When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—
- Joshua 14:1Now these are the portions that the Israelites inherited in the land of Canaan, as distributed by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of Israel.
- Joshua 18:10And Joshua cast lots for them in the presence of the LORD at Shiloh, where he distributed the land to the Israelites according to their divisions.
- Joshua 19:51These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families distributed by lot to the tribes of Israel at Shiloh before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. So they finished dividing up the land.
- Joshua 23:4See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea.
- Joshua 24:11After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand.
- Nehemiah 9:24So their descendants went in and possessed the land; You subdued before them the Canaanites dwelling in the land. You delivered into their hands the kings and peoples of the land, to do with them as they wished.
- Psalms 78:55He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
- Psalms 135:11Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan.
- Isaiah 34:17He has allotted their portion; His hand has distributed it by measure. They will possess it forever; they will dwell in it from generation to generation.
- Acts 7:45And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,
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