Acts 7:45
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“And 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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“And 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,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;”
King James Version · Public Domain“Which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered on the possession of the nations, that God thrust out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“which also our fathers having in succession received, did bring in with Joshua, into the possession of the nations whom God did drive out from the presence of our fathers, till the days of David,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Acts 7:45 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 32:49“Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.
- Joshua 3:6And he said to the priests, “Take the ark of the covenant and go on ahead of the people.” So they carried the ark of the covenant and went ahead of them.
- Joshua 3:11Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth will go ahead of you into the Jordan.
- Joshua 18:1Then the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there. And though the land was subdued before them,
- Joshua 23:9The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you.
- Joshua 24:18And the LORD drove out before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. We too will serve the LORD, because He is our God!”
- Judges 18:31So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.
- 1 Samuel 4:4So the people sent men to Shiloh, and they brought back the ark of the covenant of the LORD of Hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
- 2 Samuel 6:1David again assembled the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand in all.
- 1 Kings 8:4and they brought up the ark of the LORD and the Tent of Meeting with all its sacred furnishings. So the priests and Levites carried them up.
- 1 Chronicles 7:27Nun his son, and Joshua his son.
- 1 Chronicles 15:1David constructed buildings for himself in the City of David, and he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.
- 1 Chronicles 16:39And David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon
- 1 Chronicles 21:29For the tabernacle of the LORD that Moses had made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were presently at the high place in Gibeon,
- 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 44:2With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
- Psalms 78:55He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
- Acts 13:19And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.
- Hebrews 4:8For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.
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