Psalms 135:12

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“He gave their land as an inheritance, as a heritage to His people Israel.”

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BSBPD

“He gave their land as an inheritance, as a heritage to His people Israel.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And gave their land for a heritage, A heritage unto Israel his people.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And He gave their land an inheritance, An inheritance to Israel His people,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 135:12 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 33:54And you are to divide the land by lot according to your clans. Give a larger inheritance to a larger clan and a smaller inheritance to a smaller one. Whatever falls to each one by lot will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to the tribes of your fathers.
  2. Deuteronomy 29:8We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
  3. Joshua 11:23So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.
  4. Joshua 12:7And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir (according to the allotments to the tribes of Israel, Joshua gave them as an inheritance
  5. Psalms 44:1We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
  6. Psalms 78:55He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
  7. Psalms 136:21and He gave their land as an inheritance, His loving devotion endures forever.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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