Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

General references

Bible References

Divided

Genesis 10:25
And to Eber two sons were born. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and the name of his brother [was] Joktan.
Genesis 11:9
Therefore its name was called Babel, for there Yahweh confused the language of the whole earth, and there Yahweh scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
Psalm 115:16
The heavens [are] Yahweh's heavens, but the earth he has given to [the] children of humankind.
Acts 17:26
And he made from one [man] every nation of humanity to live on all the face of the earth, determining [their] fixed times and the fixed boundaries of their habitation,

He set

Genesis 10:15
Canaan fathered Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth,
Genesis 15:18
On that day Yahweh {made} a covenant with Abram saying, "To your offspring I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates river,

General references

Numbers 33:53
you will dispossess the land and live in it because I have given the land to you to possess it.